THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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growers will be such as will be deemed adequate to meet 
the new conditions and restrictions, if any, dependent 
on the character of the plant concerned—one to several 
years. The intention would be to give the foreign grower 
opportunity to curtail his production and dispose of sup¬ 
plies which he has already under way for the American 
market and at the same time to give opportunity for the 
American grower to prepare to meet home needs. 
Naturally, any such curtailment, if determined upon, 
will not be taken until it is clearly shown that American 
production can within a reasonable time replace the 
stock theretofore imported. 
The general principle underlying Quarantine 37 is as 
rapidly as possible to make this country independent of 
foreign supplies, with the object of ultimately reaching 
a condition where entry of foreign plants will be limited 
to new plants and such plants as are not capable of pro¬ 
duction in the United States. 
Yours very truly, 
G. L MARLATT, 
Chairman of Board. 
CROP INSURANCE 
The National Agricultural Conference which will be¬ 
gin to bold its sessions the week of January 23rd will 
discuss a subject of crop insurance. The idea is to see if 
it is not practical to have a blanket insurance covering- 
all risks of growing crops. It is thought if this can be 
put in operation by the insurance companies it will help 
to stabilize the prices of farm products. 
Nurserymen and florists are more or less familiar 
with hail and tornado insurance and it would seem as if 
it were feasible to work out a plan by which a nursery¬ 
man could insure his crops. Doubtless the National As¬ 
sociation representatives that will attend the conference 
will be alive to the value of such a scheme if it can be 
put in operation on an equitable basis. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA NURSERYMEN MEET 
January 19th the Pennsylvania Nurserymen held their 
annual meeting at the City Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The business session was preceded by a dinner to 
which eighteen sat down. The following firms and mem¬ 
bers answered the roll call: 
B. F. Barr, Lancaster, Pa. 
B. H. Farr, Wyomissing, Pa. 
Adolf Muller, Dekalb Nurseries, Norristown, Pa. 
Chandler Colmery, Tbomas Meehan and Sons, Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 
Thomas B. Meehan Co., Dresher, Pa. 
James Krewson & Sons, Cheltenham, Pa. 
Outdoor Arts Co., Flourtown, Pa. 
Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Hoopes Bro. & Thomas, West Chester, Pa. 
Joseph W. Thomas & Sons, King of Prussia, Pa. 
William II. Moon & Co., Morrisville, Pa. 
Rakestraw-Pile Co., King of Prussia, Pa. 
A. E. Wohlert, Narberth, Pa. 
Andorra Nurseries, Andorra, Pa. 
Roots Nurseries, Manheim, Pa. 
B. F. Barr in the chair. 
After the routine business Prof. J. G. Sanders, eco¬ 
nomic Zoologist, of the Penna. State Department of Ag¬ 
riculture gave a very interesting address telling of the 
work accomplished in his department towards the con¬ 
trol of diseases and pests. The potato wart disease that 
had established itself in certain districts in the state had 
been brought under control by confining the plantings 
in those sections to resistant varieties. 
The European corn borer which had been so much 
advertised as likely to be a terrible scourge was not prov¬ 
ing so serious as at first anticipated and not doing as 
much damage as the w orm commonly met with in the 
ears of sweet corn. Clean cultivation was an effective 
remedy for the corn borer. Prof. Sanders told of a 
successful introduction of the parasites which the gov¬ 
ernment has introduced from Japan for the purpose of 
attacking the Japanese beetle. Mr. Sanders had always 
been the chief advocate of his method of combatting the 
pest, and has every hope that by preventing the spread 
of the beetle until such times as the parasites have been 
successfully distributed. After this is done the beetle 
will be as inocuous in this country as it is in the land of 
its origin where it is not even considered a pest and is 
practically ignored. 
The following officers were elected to serve for the 
ensuing year: 
President—B. F. Barr. 
Vice President—J. W. Root. 
Secretary—Henry T. Moon, Morrisville, Pa. 
Treasurer—Thomas Rakestraw. 
THE AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE AT WASH¬ 
INGTON 
A conference has been called by Henry C. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., to consider 
agricultural problems of the present and future. The 
convention will begin its sessions the week of January 
23. 
M. R. Cashman, president of the American Association 
of Nurserymen has been invited to take part, in the 
interests of the nursery trade. 
The Washington conference is being held at the 
same time as the Western Association of Nurserymen 
that is taking place at Kansas City where the executive 
Board of the American Association is slated to meet. 
President Cashman nominated J. Edward Moon, Mor¬ 
risville, Pa., to report the American Association at 
Washington. 
It is possible the Washington conference will be an 
extended one possibly running over several weeks and 
many subjects not of vital interest to nurserymen will 
take place in the preliminaries. In that event horticul¬ 
tural problems are liable not to be touched upon during 
I lie first sessions. In that event with Mr. Moon on hand 
lo look after the nursery interests should anything come 
up the trade will be well looked after. After plans for 
action are formulated at Kansas city by the executive 
board president Cashman and as many of the board as 
possible will possibly go direct to Washington after the 
Kansas City meeting. 
