tibe lational IRurserpati 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XX. ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1912 No. 2 
FEDERAL LEGISLATION 
Proposed Bill Providing, for Inspection of Import Nursery Stock, 
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture 
and Submitted to Committee on Legislation 
Horticultural Commission to be Composed of U. S. Dept. 
of Agriculture Officials 
To regiilate the importation and interstate transporta¬ 
tion of nursery stock, to enable the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture to appoint a Federal Horticultural Commission 
and to define the powers of this commission in establish¬ 
ing and maintaining quarantine districts for plant 
diseases and insect pests, to permit and regulate the 
movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, 
and for other purposes. 
Sec. I. Be It Enacted by the Senate and House of Repre¬ 
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress 
assembled, That a Federal Horticultural Commission shall 
be established with the powers and for the purposes 
hereinafter defined. 
Sec. 2. That this Federal Horticultural Commission 
shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture from two or more bureaus and offices 
existing in the Department of Agriculture. 
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person, finn, 
or corporation to import or offer for entry into the United 
States from any foreign country any nursery stock unless 
and until a permit shall have been issued therefor by the 
Federal Horticultmal Commission, under such conditions 
and regulations as the, said Commission may prescribe, and 
unless such nursery stock shall be accompanied by a certifi¬ 
cate of inspection in manner and form as required by the 
aforesaid commission from the proper official of the country 
from which the importation is made to the effect that the 
stock has been inspected and found free from injurious 
plant diseases and insect pests; Provided, That the Horti- 
cultmal Commission shall issue the permit for any particular 
importation of nursery stock when the conditions and 
regulations as prescribed in this section shall have been 
complied with; Provided further, That nursery stock may 
be imported for experimental or scientific purposes, without 
the certificate of inspection or the permit of the Horti- 
cultmal Commission hereinbefore required, upon such 
conditions and imder such regulations as the said Com¬ 
mission may prescribe: And provided further, That nursery 
stock imported from countries where no official system of 
inspection for such stock is maintained may be admitted 
upon such conditions and'under such regulations as the 
Horticultural Commission may prescribe. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
Treasury promptly to notify the Federal Horticultural 
Commission of the arrival of any nursery stock at port of 
entry; that the person, firm, or corporation receiving such 
stock at port of entry shall, immediately upon entry and 
before such stock is delivered for shipment or removed 
from the port of entry, advise the Federal Horticultural 
Commission, or the proper State or Territorial Official, in 
the State or Territory or the district to which such nursery 
stock is destined, as the Federal Horticultural commission 
may elect of the name and address of the consignee, 
the nature and quantity of stock it is proposed to ship 
and the district and country where grown; that no 
person, firm, .or corporation shall ship or offer for ship¬ 
ment to any common carrier, nor shall any common 
earlier transport or receive for transportation, any 
nursery stock imported into the United States from one 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia into 
another State or Territory or the District of Columbia 
without notifying the Federal Horticultural Commission, 
or the proper State or Territorial Official in the State or 
Territory to which such nursery stock is destined, im¬ 
mediately upon the delivery of the said stock for shipment 
and before transportation is begun, of the name and address 
of the consignee, of the nature and quantity of stock it is 
proposed to ship, and the country or district where the 
same was grown. 
Sec. 5. That no person, firm, or corporation shall im¬ 
port or offer for entry into the United States or any of 
its possessions any nursery stock unless the case, box, 
package, crate, bale, or bundle thereof shall be plainly 
and correctly marked to show the general natme and 
