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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Kiselo, W allace U. Pierson, A. L. Miller. Adolf Glide and 
others were invited and a course of action was decided 
upon, one of the members being delegated to present the 
matter to the Executive Committee of the S. A. F. & 0. H. 
On March 16th, the Executive Committee of the S. A. F. 
& (). II. adopted unanimously the following resolution: 
“Whereas^ it has come to our notice that an effort is to 
be made to introduce legislation into Congress, seek¬ 
ing to prohibit at some future time the impoidation of 
Plants, Bulbs, Plant Products and Nursery Stock of 
all kinds from every source, and 
Whei ■eas the Executive Committee of the S. A. F. & 0. 
H. considers such measures not only unnecessary, 
but injurious to the welfare of its members and to 
the whole horticultural trade of the United States, 
therefore be it 
Resolved, that the chairman of the Legislative Com¬ 
mittee of the S. A. F. & 0. H. he empowered, and is 
hereby empowered, to oppose the proposed legisla¬ 
tion, to act according to his judgment in the interests 
of our Organization at the forthcoming conference, 
to get what assistance he can from any of its mem¬ 
bers, and to share with the Nurserymen’s Legislative 
Commttee the expense of employing a trained man to 
help protect our joint interests.” 
The Legislative Committee of the S. A. F. & 0. H. is 
now empowered, and prepared, to meet the Committee in 
charge of the proposed measure at a conference which 
will probably be called late in June. 
J. MgIIutchison, 
Member, Legislative Committee. 
PENNSYLVANIA QUARANTINES AGAINST 
FIVE-LEAVED PINES 
This will officially announce the enactment of a quar¬ 
antine hy the State Department of Agriculture, prohibit¬ 
ing the shipment into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
from any outside sources of any five-leaved pines. 
This sudden action was taken to forestall the shipment 
into this state from Massachusetts and Connecticut of 
large quantities of white pines for reforesting purposes, 
which were contemplated by several large companies in 
this State. Although our b’orestry Department is well 
supplied with two or three millions of young white pine 
trees, which have been offered without cost to these com¬ 
panies, nevertheless this offer was rejected, and they 
were about to place orders for these pines from the above 
states, where the white pine blister disease is known to 
be very generally established. 
In view of the fact that a number of other states, in 
order to protect their five-leaved pines, have established 
similar quarantines, it seemed advisable not only from 
this standpoint, but from the standpoint of future pro¬ 
tection to issue this immediate quarantine. 
In some instances, oui* nurserymen have placed orders 
for certain five-leaved pines, especially ornamental var¬ 
ieties, with nurserymen or growers outside the state. It 
is my purpose to assist our nurserymen in securing these 
orders in so far as possible, and where shipment is deemed 
advisable, depending entirely upon the origin of the 
material. 
Therefore if you will send me a list of any orders for 
five-leaved pines, which you have placed outside the 
state, I will issue official permits for their introduction, 
piovided we feel that they are coming from a safe local¬ 
ity. It will assist very materially if you can furnish us 
these lists of orders at an early date. 
Very truly yours, 
J. G. Sanders, Economic Zoologist. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Office of the Secretary. 
Federal Horticultural Board. 
Washington, D. C,, March 17, 1917. 
NOTICE OF PROPOSED QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT 
OF THE WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST 
The Secretary of Agriculture deems it necessary, in or¬ 
der to effectively prevent the introduction into the United 
States of the white pine blister rust (Peridermium strobi 
Kleb.), to extend the provisions of notice of Quarantine 
No. 7, issued May 21, 1913, to forbid the importation of 
all currant and gooseberry plants from Europe and Asia. 
In compliance with Section 7 of the Plant Quarantine 
Act of August 20, 1912, (37 Stat. 315), a public hearing 
will be held at the Department of Agriculture, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., Room 410 Bieber Building, at ten o’clock a. m., 
on April 10, 1917, in order that all persons interested in 
the importation of currant and gooseberry plants from 
Europe and Asia may be heard either in person or by 
attorney. 
Washington, D. C., March 17, 1917. 
NOTICE OF PROPOSED QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT 
OF THE WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that a. 
dangerous disease known as the whte pine blister rust 
(Peridermium strobi Kleb.), not heretofore widely pre¬ 
valent or distributed within and throughout the United 
States, exists in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and 
Minnesota, on account of which it appears necessary to 
quarantine them together with certain other States or 
portions thereof, as indicated in the next paragraph here¬ 
of, in accordance with Section 8 of the Plant Quarantine 
Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the 
Act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (Public—no. 390 
-—64th Congress'), and to prohibit or regulate the move¬ 
ment from said States to other States and Territories of 
five-leafed pine nursery stock and currant and gooseberry 
stock. 
It seems advisable to consider the establishment of this 
quarantine either (1) at the line of the western boundary 
of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla- 
