THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
209 
1908 
DISBURSEMENTS 
June 18, Geo. C. Seager, salary, etc . $ 506.21 
Whitehead and Hoag Co., badges .... 27.45 
Union and Advertiser Co., Badge Books 303.26 
June 22, Geo. C. Seager, Telegrams, etc. 1.11 
July 13, C. L. Yates, Salary and postage . 50.80 
July 16, Miss Emma Jacobson, reporting com¬ 
mittee . 64.90 
Orlando Harrison, stamps, printing, etc 30.95 
B. E. Fields, printing 1000 copies 
S. D. laws. 25.55 
July 27, Thomas B. Meehan, Committee on 
Exhibits. 22.67 
Oct. 17, Union and Advertiser Co. 234.90 
Oct. 23, J. H. Dayton, attending meeting 
tariff committee . 15.00 
Geo. C. Seager, express. 2.20 
Dec. 26, J. H. Dayton, expense on tariff com¬ 
mittee Washington. 47.40 
Theo. J. Smith, expense on tariff com¬ 
mittee Washington. 32.60 
Wm. Pitkin, expense on tariff com¬ 
mittee Washington . 40 20 
1909. 
Jan. 13, M. E. Wolff Co., Bond for Treasurer .. 18.75 
Mar. 2, W. C. Reed, attending W. Classifica¬ 
tion committee . 95.40 
Stark Bros., attending W. Classifica¬ 
tion committee . 83.80 
Mar. 18, J. H. Dayton, expense Washington 
Legislature Committee. 46.60 
J. M. Pitkin, expense Washington 
Legislature Committee.. 39.75 
William Pitkin, expense Washington 
Legislature Committee. 46.01 
Mar. 25, William Pitkin, expense Washington 
Legislative Committee. .54 
Thomas B. Meehan, expense Wash¬ 
ington Legislative Committee . 23.00 
Mar. 27, Irving Rouse, expense Washington 
ton Legislative Committee. 40.50 
Apr. 12, Wm. Pitkin, expense to Buffalo Tariff 
Committee. 5.25 
Irving Rouse, expense to Buffalo Tariff 
Committee. 5.83 
May 7, Wm. Pitkin, expense to Washington 
Tariff Committee. 32.80 
Irving Rouse, expense to Washington 
Tariff Committee . 40.00 
June 7, Cash to Balance. 3853.79 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
$5737.22 $5737.22 
C. L. Yates, Treas. 
SECRETARY’S REPORT, 1908-9 
June 6th, 1908 to June 7th, 1909 
RECEIPTS 
Membership Fees. 
Advertising in Badge Book 
Extra Badges and Books . . 
Exchange . 
Codes . 
$2035.00 
722.CO 
23.50 
5.25 
.55 
S2786.30 
DISBURSEMENTS 
May 3, 1909, C. L. Yates, Treasurer. $1070.00 
June 7, 1909, C. L. Yates, Treasurer . 1692.25 
Exchange . 22 10 
Postage . j 95 
$2786.30 
Geo. C. Seager, Sec’y. 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 
By Chairman Wm. Pitkin 
Gentlemen: 
As Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, I beg to 
offer a report of the work done by your Committee during 
the past year. Many matters of state legislation have 
been either referred to this Committee or investigated 
directly by the Chairman. 
Perhaps the most important matter which has come up 
for action by this Committee was a bill introduced in the 
last Congress providing for the inspection of foreign nursery 
stock at ports of entry. Contrary to a tacit understanding 
which had existed for a number of years, this bill was pre¬ 
pared by Dr. Howard of the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington in connection with several state entomolo¬ 
gists, and without consulting the Nursery Association. 
The Bill passed the House of Representatives, and had been 
reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Agricul¬ 
ture, before your Legislative Committee had any informa¬ 
tion regarding the matter. The Chairman of the Committee 
called to his assistance, Messrs. Irving Rouse, James M. 
Pitkin, J. H. Dayton, Abner Hoopes, W. H. Moon, and 
Thomas B. Meehan, and the Committee went to Washing¬ 
ton, and after a hard fight succeeded in killing the. measure 
for the last session of Congress. It was agreed that the bill 
would be laid over, with the understanding that before the 
next session of Congress the Legislative Committee of your 
Association, together with Dr. Howard of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, and other entomologists would get 
together, and endeavor to agree on a bill that would be 
mutually satisfactory. Following this agreement, and at 
the suggestion of Dr. Howard, your Committee formulated 
a Bill and sent it to Dr. Howard for his consideration, about 
two months ago. Shortly after that time your Chairman 
and some of the members of the Committee were in Wash¬ 
ington in connection with matters of Tariff, and called on 
Dr. Howard for the purpose of discussing the proposed Bill, 
but the Doctor had not had time to consider the matter, 
and was not ready to discuss it. It was therefore left for 
future consideration, and your Committee would suggest 
that the Legislative Committee for next year be given 
authority to act on this matter following the general lines 
of the Bill presented for Dr. Howard’s consideration. A 
copy of the Bill is attached to, and made part of this report. 
In explanation I would say that the Bill introduced in 
the last Congress provided for the inspection of all foreign 
nursery stock at ports of entry, and for the inspection of 
growing nursery stock in the United States which might be 
infested or be under suspicion of being infested by insects or 
diseases new to the United States, and providing for the 
