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dence that the death of these two men should have come so 
near together. 
September 27th—Benj. Chase, Derry Village, New 
Hampshire, died, age 80 years. He first became a member 
of this Association in 1895. 
November 13—George Allen Sweet, Dansville, N. Y., 
was called home at the age of 68. 
November 29— Charles Dingee, Westchester, Pa., passed 
away in his 88th year. 
February 16, 1913—William D. Ellwanger, son of the 
late George Ellwanger, and president of the Ellwanger & 
Barry nurseries, passed away at the age of 59 at his home 
in Rochester, N. Y. 
May 29th, 1913—Martha G. Lear, secretary of the 
Morris Nursery Co., West Chester, Pa. This lady has 
usually been present in our annual gatherings and with 
your Secretary and Prof. Craig occupied the same auto¬ 
mobile in our visit to the Sargent Arboretmn at Boston, 
Mass, last year. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, was also numbered 
among the deceased during the year. 
FINANCIAL REPORT 
1912 
Dec. 5, Bal. for Memberships, etc .... $ 288.75 
1913 
June 6, Memberships, advts., etc. 3,025.40 3,314.1 
- $3,314.15 
Disbursements 
1912 
Dec. 5, C. J. Maloy, treasurer. $ 288.75 
1913 
May I, C. J. Maloy, treasurer. 1,900.00 
June 6, C. J. Maloy, treasurer. 1,000.00 
Balance in bank on hand. 125.40 
C. J. Maloy, treasurer, also reports. 
Receipts, $9,520.66; balance, $6,316.79. 
$3,314-15 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
As Chairman of the Committee on Legislation East of the 
Mississippi River, I beg to submit the following report: 
Federal Legislation 
Much of the work of this Committee during the past five 
years has been the consideration of the proposed legislation 
affecting the importation of foreign nursery stock and the 
quarantine of domestic stock, and at the St. Louis Conven¬ 
tion of 19n and the Boston Convention of 1912, full reports 
were made covering the situation existing at the time. The 
report made at the Boston Convention concluded by saying 
that the bill then under consideration, introduced May 3d, 
1912, No. 24119, was not likely to be acted on diuing the 
then present session of Congress, and your Committee sug¬ 
gested “that it should be instructed as to the views and 
wishes of the Association, and authorized to continue to 
carefully watch the progress of the present bill, and to safe¬ 
guard as far as possible the interests of the members of this 
Association.’’ Much to the surprise of ever^'body, including 
your Committee and the officials of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, the bill passed Congress in August, 1912, substan¬ 
tially as shown by Bill No. 24119. 
The next work of your Committee was an effort to get the 
“Rules and Regulations’’ of the Department as authorized by 
the law in such working shape as would be practical and least 
burdensome to the trade. In September, 1912, your Com¬ 
mittee had a conference in Washington with several of the 
members of the Horticultural Board, and succeeded in 
materially modifying the requirements suggested by the 
Board. We found the members of the Board anxious to so 
arrange the regulations as to make them as little burdensome 
as possible, consistent with the proper protection of the 
public, and the rules as adopted and promulgated have been 
in effect during the past shipping season, with some slight 
modifications from time to time as necessities arose, and have 
worked with fair smoothness, considering that they were new 
and, to a certain extent, of an experimental nature. 
During the month of May, your Committee received from 
Mr. Marlatt, Chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board, a 
draft of proposed “New Rules and Regulations.’’ These 
were carefully considered by your Committee, and some 
changes and modifications suggested, and the “New Rules 
and Regulations’’ have been printed and issued by the 
Department as Circular No. 44, dated May 26th, 1913, and 
can be secured by any nurseryman by application to the 
Federal Horticultural Board at Washington, D. C. 
The new rules are, in general, better and easier than those 
in effect last winter. One important change is a provision 
for a blanket permit covering all of the importations which 
you may propose to make from any one foreign concern. 
It will not be necessary to include in your application a state¬ 
ment of the quantities or items to be imported, except as to 
Pines, and you will receive a general permit covering your 
transactions with the foreign exporter during the season, but 
when the goods arrive, whether in one or more lots, you will 
be required to send a statement to the Federal Horticultural 
Board, giving in detail the items received, which would prac¬ 
tically be a copy of your consular invoice; the same notice to 
be sent to the state inspector who will have charge of the 
inspection at destination. 
The changes in the new rules are generally in the line of 
removal of unnecessary restrictions, and in that respect are 
an improvement on the previous rules. There are still some 
provisions in the rules which seem to your Committee to be 
unnecessary, and which add to our burdens and the burdens 
of the Federal Horticultural Board, without increasing the 
efficiency of the regulations, and your Committee has sug¬ 
gested to Chairman Marlatt a further conference during the 
summer, for the purpose of considering such points; there¬ 
fore, yoiu" new Legislative Committee should be instructed as 
to yoiu views and wishes, and, if you think it wise, should be 
given instructions to continue such conferences with the 
Federal Horticultural Board as it may deem advisable. 
In conclusion, your Committee wishes to correct an 
erroneous impression evidently in the minds of some of the 
members of this Association. It has seemed to be the 
