THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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ernment thereof, certifying that the contents have been carefully 
examined and found apparently free from all insect aud fungous or 
other disease dangerously injurious to nursery stock. 
In case any nursery goods are offered for entry at any port of the 
Uuited States without said certificate, as herein prescribed, it shall be 
the duty of the collector immediately to notify the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, who shall arrange for inspection to be made at the expense of 
the importer, who shall pay therefor a fee to be fixed by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, and said collector shall not allow them to pass within 
the jurisdiction of the United States until a satisfactory certificate of 
inspection has been received. And after the aforesaid date, July 1st, 
1902, all nursery stock imported in accordance with the aforesaid regu¬ 
lations shall be free from all further inspection quarantine, or restric¬ 
tion in interstate commerce: Provided, however, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture may, in his discretion, order specific examinations, and 
may also, at any time, relieve such articles from inspection by a specific 
order. 
Sec. 2 That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture 
that any nursery stock or variety of fruit grown in an infested district 
outside of the United States is being, or is about to be, imported into 
the United States, and such nursery stock or variety of fruit is infested 
by any seriously injurious insect or disease, which insect or disease is 
liable to become established in the United States and seriously affect 
any such nursery stock or variety of fruit grown therein, he shall have 
authority to quarantine against any such importations and prevent the 
same until such time as it may appear to him thrt any such insect or 
disease has become exterminated in the, country or district from which 
such fruit or nursery stock is being, or is about to be, imported, when 
he may withdraw the quarantine, and this shall operate to relieve all 
such nursery stock or frnit from such further quarantine or restriction 
as is provided for in this section so long as the conditions of freedom 
from seriously injurious insects or disease shall continue. 
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture may designate, in each 
State and Territory and in the District of Columbia, qualified experts, 
perts, with authority to examine all nursery stock about to be trans¬ 
ported from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into 
another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and issue their 
certificates stating the results of such examinations. 
The secretary may publish rules and regulations prescribing the 
terms and conditions under which such experts may act. These exam, 
inations shall be made, so far as possible, between June 1st aud Sep¬ 
tember 1st of each year, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of 
Agriculture ; and if such nursery stock is found to be apparently free 
from dangerously injurious insects or diseases, the certificate of the 
authorized expert making such examination and finding shall be issued 
to the owner or owners of such nursery stock, a copy of which certifi¬ 
cate shall be attached to and accompany each carload, box, bale, or 
package, and when so attached and accompanying shall operate to 
release all such nursery stock from further inspection, quarantine, or 
restriction in interstate commerce. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corpora, 
tion to deliver to any other person, persons, or corporation, or to the 
postal service of the United States (except for scientific put poses by 
permission of the Secretary of Agriculture), for transportation from 
one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or 
Territory or the District of Columbia, or for exportation to any foreign 
country, any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, or other nursery stock which 
have not been examined in accordance with the provisions of section 
three of this Act, or which, on said examination, have been declared 
by the inspector to be infested with dangerously injurious insects or 
diseases. Any person, persons, firm, or corporation who shall forge, 
counterfeit, or knowingly alter, deface, or destroy any certificate or 
copy thereof, as provided for in this Act and in the regulations of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, or shall in any way violate the provisions of 
this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on a conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500 or ess than $200, 
or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both, at the discretion 
of the court. 
Sec. 5. That the rules and regulations herein provided for shall be 
promulgated on or before the first day of July in each year. 
Sec. 6. That the sum of $50,000, to be available on the first day of 
May, 1902, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro¬ 
priated, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not 
otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. 
Sec. 7. That this Act shall take effect on and after the thirtieth day 
of June, 1902. 
Sec. 8. That the provisions of this Act shall not apply in interstate 
commerce to florists’ greenhouse trees, shrubs, plants and bulbs, com¬ 
monly known as florists’ stock. 
EXHIBITS. 
Joseph Heinl, Jacksonville,'Ill —Junipers (juniper compacta), hardy 
Tea and Bedding Roses. 
J. Horace McFarland Co., Mt. Pleasant Press, Harrisburg, Pa.— 
Photographs. 
Steelier Lithographic Co., Rochester, N. Y.—Lithographed plates. 
II II. Cotta, Freeport, Ill.—Cherries—name wanted. 
Rochester Lithographic Co., Rochester, N. Y .—Lithographed plates 
August Rhotert, New York—Raffia (by Mr. McHutchinson). 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill.—Collection spruces. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H.—Wood labels. 
Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., Dayton, O. — Wood labels. 
Macmillan Co., New York—Horticultural Books. 
Jackson & Perkins Co , Newark, N. Y.—Tree Counter Registers. 
E W. Kirkpatrick, Sherman, Tex.—Plums and Peaches. 
Gage Nurseries, Beatrice, Neb.—Apple and Pear Seedlings. 
Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J.—Raffia. 
II. D. Appletree Barnes, Waupaca, Wis.—Potatoes. 
CONVENTION NOTES. 
W. G. Withoft is the postmaster at Dayton, Ohio. 
There was talk of Asheville, N C., as a place of meeting in 1903. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., found many applicants the very first 
day of the convention for his 600,000 apple, some of them for the 
entire lot. 
President Ilgenfritz, after the Milwaukee convention, went South 
and then East, calling upon nurserymen in Rochester, Dansville and 
other Western New York points. 
C. J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y., of Brown Brothers’ Company, will 
sail for Europe on July 5th with his mother. His wife is visiting 
friends on the Pacific coast. 
An attempt was made to get the members of the Association together 
for a group photograph, but it was futile. The trouble was that there 
was no opportunity to photograph the group at the hotel. 
Secretary Seager announced that an error had been made in the 
Badge Book in the case of the Upland Nursery Company, whose ad¬ 
dress should be printed Bridgeport, Ohio, instead of Bridgeton, N. J. 
S P. Hartman, Ottumwa, Iowa, made at Milwaukee his initial visit 
to the convention of the American Association. Ilis 320 pounds 
avoirdupois had no effect apparently upon his active interest in the 
affairs of the convention. 
J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Indian Territory, is secretary of the 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association which will meet in August. 
Mr. Taylor is chairman of the fruit committee for the Indian and 
Oklahoma territories for the St. Louis Exposition. 
Edgar Sanders, Chicago, Ill., first president of the American Asso¬ 
ciation (in 1876), occupied a front seat at the Milwaukee convention. 
He was accorded a place of honor with such other patriarchs as Z. K. 
Jewett, N. H. Albaugh. J. Van Lindley and C. L. Watrous. The 
genial Jacob W. Manning was missed. 
R. B. Watrous, secretary of the Citizens’ Business League of Mil¬ 
waukee, provided conveyances in which the members of the American 
Association enjoyed a ride about the city on the second day of the 
convention. It w-as wisely arranged that the visit to one of Milwau¬ 
kee’s famed industries was reserved for the last. 
Mr. McGill, Salem, Oregon, joined his family near Chatham, Ont., 
after the convention. Mr. McGill believes it would be to the advantage 
of the American Association of Nurserymen to meet on the Pacific 
coast in the near future, and suggests that the annual meeting of 1905 
be held at Salem, Oregon, on the occasion of the Lewis and Clark 
Exposition. The schedule then might be : Detroit 1903, St. Louis 
1904, Salem 1905. 
