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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
be added to the list. 
We want to get a list of all the speakers we can, at least one 
in every state, so we can supply lecture dates on short notice 
anywhere. If you can talk, send in your name. If you can’t, send 
in someone’s else. (And we may get yours from him!) 
We haven’t any advertising fund on hand at this writing, but 
we plan to do enough this spring to let at least the gardening 
public know of our existence and our readiness to help them 
with their problems. Eventually, of course, advertising will be 
our chief medium for creating new business. If every nursery¬ 
man in the country would use five per cent of his advertising 
appropriation in a co-operative effort for Market Development, 
well, it’s useless to speculate; but keep that thought in mind. 
And we have started work on the first bulletin or pamphlet 
for the Bureau to publish, to help make more business and bet¬ 
ter satisfied users of nursery stock. It will be printed as soon 
as funds allow. 
Still farther in the future, but not so far but what we have be¬ 
gun work on them, is a one reel “movie’’ for schools, churches, 
and garden clubs, showing just how to plant and care for the dif¬ 
ferent kinds of nursery stock, trees, shrubs, plants, when they 
are received from the nursery. Do you realize that even with 
the present list of subscribers, it would cost only some four dol¬ 
lars each to make that film? And that most schools and clubs 
are now equipped for showing movies? And how much better 
results the man, woman, or boy, or girl without experience in 
planting would get from the stock you sell them after seeing just 
how the job of planting should be done. The sooner a few 
prints of that film can be started on the rounds, the better! It’s 
up to you, especially you who haven’t subscribed yet! 
Many other plans we have afoot; I won’t go into anything fur¬ 
ther now. There’s no use getting the program more than six 
laps ahead of the bank-roll! You can help a lot by being prompt 
in sending Mr. Welch your subscription when it’s called for, 
which it will be done soon. And, also, you can help both your¬ 
self and us by getting after the fellow who hasn’t come in yet, 
and making him do his share. 
This has been a longer letter than I started to write, but I 
wanted you to know what the Service Bureau is really planning 
to do, and what you can make it mean to your business. 
With apologies to the Secretary, or -whoever has had to read 
you this, and trusting that you will all find the coming spring a 
prosperous one, I am. 
Yours for America more Fruitful and more Beautiful. 
THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD’S 
SIDE OF THE PLANT EMBARGO 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 
Federal Horticultural Board, 
Washington, D. C. 
February 10 1919. 
Dear Sir: 
Your attention has no doubt been called to a campaign of pro¬ 
test against the enforcement of Plant Quarantine No. 37, placing 
additional restrictions on the importation of nursery stock and 
other plants and seeds on and after June 1, next. 
This campaign has for its main object to compel the continued 
authorization of importations of balled plants or plants with 
earth about the roots. This class of plants represents the larg¬ 
est element excluded by quarantine No. 37, and the one from 
which a small group of importers reap their chief profit. This 
class of plant imports, also, involves the greatest danger of entry 
of new pests and is one which it is impossible to safeguard by 
inspection or disinfection so far as insects contained in the soil 
are concerned. The entry of plants with soil, under the present 
state of our knowledge of inspection and disinfection, would prac¬ 
tically throw down the bars as to foreign pests. 
The propaganda against the quarantine was started by the 
Dreer Nursery Company, in whose nurseries at Riverton, New 
Jersey, the Japanese beetle was introduced by this firm with 
Japanese iris. It is for the continuation of just such importa¬ 
tions that this company is making its fight, into which it has 
drawn in support of its contention, by misrepresentation, a large 
body of florists and ornamental horticulturists and even on oc¬ 
casion some officials who should have been better advised. 
Quarantine No. 37 represents years of careful consideration 
given to the subject by the experts of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture and of the several States and of the interests concerned. 
It voices the belief that the policy of practical exclusion of all 
stock not absolutely essential to the horticulture, floriculture. 
and forestry of the United States is the only one that will give 
adequate protection against the introduction of dangerous plant 
diseases and insects, and this is the primary and sole object of 
the quarantine. 
The following memoranda have been drawn up in answer to 
the numerous letters and requests for information that have been 
received by the Department as a result of this propaganda. The 
introductory statement issued by the Office of Information indi¬ 
cates the scope of the quarantine and points out specifically the 
provision for the entry of all foreign plant novelties for introduc¬ 
tion purposes; in other words, no plants are completely excluded 
by this quarantine. These memoranda are sent to you for your 
information and for use in correcting any wrong conception that 
may have resulted from this propaganda. 
Yours very truly, 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman of Board. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Office of Information 
ENTRY OF PLANTS RESTRICTED TO PROTECT AMERICAN 
CROPS—NO PLANTS COMPLETELY EXCLUDED 
BY NEW QUARANTINE. 
Excluded plants may still be imported through the agency of 
the Department of Agriculture, in limited quantities to supply 
the country with novelties and necessary propagating stock, such 
entry being safeguarded by the highly-developed inspection and 
quarantine service which has been organized by the department. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture Explains Reasons for Fab- 
Reaciiing Regulations Which Go into Effect June 1, 1919. 
Washington, D. C. The effective date—June 1, 1919—of 
Plant Quarantine No. 37 will mark the operation of new and 
strict regulations governing the importation into the United 
States of plants and plant products. The quarantine order has 
been promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture to check so far 
as possible the introduction of more dangerous crop enemies. 
Experts of the Department of Agriculture estimate that the 
losses caused by the pests already introduced, for the most part 
through the agency of imported plants, aggregate half a billion 
dollars annually. 
Important provisions of the new quarantine are as follows; 
* Requires permits and compliance with regulations for impor¬ 
tation of lily bulbs, lily-of-the-valley, narcissus, hyacinths, tulips, 
and crocus; stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds, of fruits for 
propagation; rose stocks for propagation, including Manetti, Mul¬ 
tiflora, Brier Rose, and Rosa Rugosa; nuts, including palm seeds, 
for propagation; seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade 
trees, seeds of deciduous and evergreen ornamental shrubs, and 
seeds of hardy perennial plants. 
Leaves unrestricted, except in special cases, importations of 
fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products imported for 
medicinal, food or manufacturing purposes; and field, vegetable, 
and flower seeds. 
Excludes, except as noted in next paragraph, all other classes 
of plants for propagation, including fruit trees, grapevines, bush 
fruits, grafted and budded roses, forest, ornamental and decidu¬ 
ous trees, ornamental and deciduous shrubs, pine trees of all 
kinds, broad-leaved evergreens (such as azaleas and rhododen¬ 
drons), and a long list of plant material commonly known as 
florists’ stock. 
The conditions of entry of these various classes of plants and 
plant products are given in the regulations under the quaran¬ 
tine. A news letter giving more detailed explanation of the 
conditions governing importatons still permitted, shortly will 
be sent by the Department of Agriculture to all horticultural, 
nursery and florist trade journals. 
Quarantine No. 37 represents years of careful consideration 
given to the subject by the experts of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, and of the several States, and of the interests concern¬ 
ed, followed by a public hearing, and subsequent further inves¬ 
tigation and consultation with the principal nurserymen and 
florists of this country. The quarantine, therefore, embodies 
the best judgment of the plant experts of the department, and 
of the several States, concurred in by most of the interests en¬ 
gaged in actual plant production. It voices the belief that the 
policy of practical exclusion of all stock not absolutely essen¬ 
tial to the horticultural, floricultural and forestry needs of the 
United States is the only one that will give adequate protection 
