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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
issuance of certificates on such nursery stock after it had 
been inspected or treated if infestation was found to exist. 
The proposed Bill provides for the inspection of all foreign 
nursery stock at destination on the premises of the con¬ 
signee or owner, and for the inspection and treatment of 
growing nursery stock if it is found to be infested or suspected 
of infestation of diseases new to the United States, but the 
new Bill does not provide for any federal certificates to be 
attached to shipments, as it is not proposed by Federal 
Bill to inspect all nursery stock, but simply such as might 
be infested with new diseases or insects, and consequently 
your Committee cannot see where it would be possible to 
adequate means could have been devised to satisfactorily 
inspect and re-pack at ports of entry, the enormous quantity 
of foreign nursery stock entering this country. It would 
have meant damage to the stock, it would have meant 
serious delay in their arrival at destination, and altogether 
a bad proposition for every member of this Association and 
every other nurseryman in the country. 
The proposed Bill provides for inspection of all foreign 
nursery stock at final destination on the premises of the 
owner. To that there can be no valid objection. Such 
inspection is now being done in New York, Pennsylvania, 
Ohio and other states, and without any serious incon- 
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arrange the matter of certificates to cover such a class of 
nursery stock, and without conflicting with the general 
line of growing nursery stock, which it is not expected to 
inspect by the Federal Department. 
Further discussion on this matter will no doubt be 
necessary, and it will probably be necessary to agree on 
some sort of a Bill before the next Convention of this 
Association, so that your Committee would recommend 
that the Legislative Committee for next year be given full 
power and authority to act on this subject in general 
conformity to the lines of the proposed Bill. This Associa¬ 
tion may well congratulate itself that the Bill introduced 
during the last session rvas not passed. Had it been enacted 
it would have meant serious damage to the nursery interests 
of the country, for it does not seem possible that any 
venience or damage to the goods. It is probable that some 
federal legislation will be enacted, and if that is the case, it 
wall be 'well for this Association to join the in discussion of 
proposed legislation, and do what it can to shape up a law 
that will be practical and easily administered. / 
Your Chairman has also investigated a Bill passed at the 
last session of the Legislature of the State of Maine, and 
does not find that it contains very much of interest, or 
much of detriment, to members of this Association. It' 
provides that all nursery stock shipped into the State shall 
bear on each package a certificate of inspection, that on 
arrival -the state inspectors may inspect if they so desire, 
and further—that “All agents or other parties except 
growers, wdio desire to sell nursery stock, shall make appli¬ 
cation for agent’s license, and shall file with the State 
