THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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(Jeiitleinen, a])])le ,i»Towers of Noilli Georgia, I 
liave eonie liere not to teach l)iit to learn, hence 1 
sliall close my brief remarks and in doing so I desire 
to call yonr attention to two important features that 
are essential to successful commercial orcharding 
and these we must all co-o])erate to bring about, be¬ 
cause of the fact that they are not natural condi¬ 
tions, they are conditions dependent upon us to cre¬ 
ate: 
1st. In having our State Legislature enact strin- 
g'ent laws for the ])rotection of fruit frees and ])lants 
in general by making it unlawful to maintain or¬ 
chards uns]^rayed and otherwise neglected. Such 
neglected conditions create disease and breed unde¬ 
sirable and hurtful insects that iirjure and damage 
the fruit. 
2nd. iiie absolute necessity of securing railroad 
co-o])eration to facilitate the handling of our fruit 
and inter cro])S as well as eciuitable freight rates. 
AVe can have these, as this is the day when govern¬ 
ment agriculture, commerce, manufacture and trade 
are assuming new forms and acce])ting higher stan¬ 
dards of justice and eciuity, and in the general 
change of conditions the varied relations of horti¬ 
culture will command an honorable position and per- 
foian more useful services to mankind. 
MAIL IMPORTATIONS OF PLANTS. 
March 11, 1914. 
Dear Sir: 
F"'or your information on the subject of the restric¬ 
tions i)laced upon the importation of plants in the 
mails from foreign countries, you are advised that an 
order issued by the Second Assistant Postmaster 
General December 16,1913, prohibits the importation 
from foreign countries through the mails of all 
])lants and i)lant products for ])ropagation, includ¬ 
ing seeds, except held, vegetable, and hower seeds. 
This ])rohibition, therefore, applies to bulbs, roots, 
and tu])ers, and to all seeds of trees, shrubs, or other 
])lants, except only held, vegetable and hower seeds. 
CAtton seed, which would be rated as a held seed, 
is, however, ])rohibited entry into the United States 
from any foreign country except certain States in 
Alexico by Quarantine No. 8, and this prohibition, 
therefore, naturally extends to mail ])ackages as well 
as to shi])ments by other carriers. Domestic (Quar¬ 
antine No. 9 also ])rohibits the movement of cotton 
seed from Hawaii to the United States. 
Under the order issued by the Second Assistant 
Postmaster General nursery stock aud other plant 
products for propagation, except as noted, received 
in the mails from foreign countries are to be return¬ 
ed from the i)Ost office of receipt, as prohibited, to 
the country jind ])lace of origin. 
This restricts the carriage of such products from 
foreign countries to other means, such as by exi)ress 
or freight. Importations Iw these methods pass 
through the customs office in the normal way, and 
are under comi)lete control. Postal sendings are 
entered under an entirely different system and ne¬ 
cessitate examination at any little post office 
throughout the United States. 
It is possible to transmit many injurious insects 
and plant diseases in lots of plants or seeds sent 
through the mails, and the insx)ection of snch mail 
sendings is an impossibility without a vast army of 
ins])ectors. It was, further, found necessary to 
make the restriction very broad, much broader than 
the original definition of nursery stock, for the rea¬ 
son that foreign ship])ers, and ])ostmasters as well, 
were (juite unable to make the distinction between 
nursery stock and herbaceous jdants, etc., and the 
only safe course was to exclude all x)lants from mail 
sendings with the excex)tion of the seeds noted, 
which are deemed to carry comx)aratively little dan¬ 
ger of introducing insect x^ests or diseases. 
This information may be of use to insx^ectors in the 
case of any mail shixnnents being referred to them 
for examination through error or lack of information 
on the x^art of the local x^ostmaster. 
Yours very tridy, 
C. L. Marlatt, Ghairnian of Board. 
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The Forest Service is resx^onsible for the statement 
that the Monterey Pine is doing wonderfully well in 
New Zealand, where it is called the ‘Hlemarkable 
Pine‘‘ on account of its remarkable growth. One 
individual tree 46 years old was estimated to contain 
more than 6000 board feet. Qdie average AVhite Pine 
trees of the same age in this country when grown in 
the forest seldom contains much more than 125 board 
feet. 
' The Monterey Pine naturally grows in a few re¬ 
stricted areas in southern California and has never 
been held in very high esteem in this country. Its 
remarkable behaviour in New Zealand has suggested 
further imxuiry into its x^ossibilities in different lo¬ 
calities in this country. 
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The Daily Consular and Trade Rex:)orts state that 
the value of the flowers from the French and Italian 
Riviera will amount to no less than $12,200,000. The 
average annual net x^rofits made out of the trade in 
the Riviera l)y the actual growers is estimated as $2,- 
725,000. Early vegetables aud fruit $1,168,000, giv¬ 
ing total annual x')rolit of the growers as $3,893,000. 
The fruits and vegetables are shix)X)ed about as 
