THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
706 
SEPTEMBEIi2»l,l9ll 
EXPORTATION OF PLANTS. 
Issue of Certificates. 
Witli a view to assist nurserymen in Eng¬ 
land and Wales to develop their export trade, 
the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries are 
prepared to issue the Certificates required by 
the Governments of the countries and colo¬ 
nies to which plants are to be exported, under 
the following conditions; 
1. In cases in which consignments of plants 
or bulbs are only admitted on production of a 
Certificate by the Board, or by one of their 
Inspectors, that the contents have been ex¬ 
amined and declared to be healthy or free 
from certain specified pests, application 
should be made to the Board a few days 
before the consignment is to be dispatched. 
If it is desired that the plants should be 
sent by parcel post they should be sent ready 
packed in a box, with the lid not nailed 
down, to the Secretary, Board of Agricul¬ 
ture and Fisheries, Craven House, Northum¬ 
berland Avenue, London, W.C., marked on 
the outside, ‘‘ Plants (or bulbs) for export.'' 
A prepaid adhesive label addressed to the 
consignee should be enclosed, and the Cus¬ 
toms declaration form required by the Postal 
Regulations (Post Office Guide, p‘ 772) should 
be filled up and affixed to the box. The box 
will be dispatched by the Board and a receipt 
of posting obtained. 
The necessary sum must also be enclosed 
if it is desired that the parcel should be in¬ 
sured, but it must be understood that the 
Board cannot, in any case, accept any re¬ 
sponsibility for any loss or damage which 
may arise during the examination or transit 
of the goods. 
No charge will be made for the examina¬ 
tion of a consignment which is contained in 
one box and weighs when packed not more 
than lllbs. For the examination of any 
consignment exceeding that weight, whether 
pack-^ in two or more boxes, the following 
charge will be made: Packages not exceed¬ 
ing 56lbs. in weight, 2 s. 6 d. Packages weigh¬ 
ing between 56lbs. and Icwt., 5s. Packages 
weighing over Icwt. cannot be examined at 
the Board’s office, and a special fee will be 
charged for examining them. If the Inspec- 
tor is required for any reason to travel 
more than 20 miles to the place where the 
consignment is to be examined, a fee of 
£2 2s. will be charged. The fee must in 
every case be paid before the Certificate can 
be issued. 
2 . The Board have made special arrange¬ 
ments to meet the requirements of the Regu¬ 
lations issued by the Government of the 
United States of America under the Plant 
Quarantine Act of 1912. These Regulations 
require, among other things, that nurserv 
stock shipped between October 1 and May 
31 shall be inspected on or after October 1 , 
and that such stock, if shipped during the 
growing season, shall be examined at the 
time of packing. The inspection is required 
to be carried out under the direction of a 
duly authorised official of the board, and 
the plants must be accompanied by a Cer¬ 
tificate of that official as to their freedom 
from injurious plant diseases and insect pests. 
An original Certificate must accompany 
the invoice of each consignment, and a 
signed copy must be attached to each “con¬ 
tainer.” Exporters when applying for the 
Certificate should therefore state how many 
copies will be required by them. 
Growers who propose to export plants to 
the United States should inform the Board 
of their intention as early in the year as 
possible. Preliminary insp^tions will be 
made from time to time during the summer 
months, and a final examination will be made 
as early as possible in October. 
Applicants must furnish the Board with a 
written undertaking that no plants will be 
shipped under their Certificate except those 
actually grown on the premises referred to 
in the Certificate. 
After the final examination has been made 
and if the nursery is found to be free from 
injurious plant disease and insect pests, the 
Board will be prepared to issue such Certifi¬ 
cates and copies as may be required up to 
May 31 in the following year. 
The fee charged by the Board for these 
Certificates will in most cases be £2 2 s. a 
year for each nursery, for which sum an un¬ 
limited number of Certificates and copies 
can be obtained. 
The Beard reserve the right of refusing 
to consider applications for inspection unless 
they are received before November 1 , 1913. 
Any stock shipped between May 31 and 
October 1 will be examined under the condi¬ 
tions explained in section 1 of this Memoran¬ 
dum. 
N.B.—Nursery stock cannot be admitted 
into the United States unless a permit for 
the entry has been obtained from the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Washington. Shippers 
on this side, therefore, would be well ad¬ 
vised to ^ that the necessary permit has 
been obtained by their customer before the 
goods are shipped. Entry will not be al¬ 
lowed, mor-wver, unless the case, box, or 
other container or covering is plainly and 
correctly marked to show the number of the 
permit, the general nature and quantity of 
the contents, the district or locality and 
country where grown, the name and address 
of the exporter, and the name and address 
of the consignee. 
3. The Board are prepared to issue Phyl¬ 
loxera Certificates, when such certificates are 
required by the Government of the import¬ 
ing country, in the case of stock exported 
from nurseries which have been examined by 
their Inspectors. The fee for such examina¬ 
tion will be £2 2 s. per annum, but a separate 
fee will not be charged in this connection if 
the nursery has been inspected in accordance 
with the arrangement outlined in section 2 . 
4. In cases in which a Certificate of the 
Board is required stating that no disease of 
a certain kind has been reported from the 
neighbourhood in which the plants were 
grown a declaration signed (and in some cases 
sworn) by the grower must be sent, stating 
that the plants (in most cases potatoes) were 
grown on a particular farm. 
In cases in which the Certificates required 
do not fall within any of the foregoing cate¬ 
gories, nurserymen who wish to export plants 
should apply to the Board for further par¬ 
ticulars. Sydney Olivier, Secretary. 
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 
4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W. 
NATIONAL SWEET PEA 
SOCIETY. 
I venture to address you to ask your sup¬ 
port for the new constitution of the National 
Sweet Pea Society, which will shortly be sub¬ 
mitted to your vote by that Society as having 
been put forward by me. 
The chief objects of the proposed changes 
are to place the government of the society 
in the hands of independent amateurs, to re¬ 
duce the number of “ varieties ” to a trust¬ 
worthy and comparatively short list, and to 
control the introduction of alleg-^ new 
varieties. 
I need not enter into the past unhappy his¬ 
tory of the society, or support my scheme by 
recrimination, because I claim that the pro¬ 
posed new constitution will benefit immensely 
both the public and the trade. The former 
will benefit because they will be protected 
against being asked to buy as novelties things 
that are not novelties, while the trader will 
be secured against the appropriation and 
re-naming in the future of anything good 
that he may have produced. 
On the other hand, control, unless it is 
carefully considered, is apt to hinder enter¬ 
prise, and I should myself be strongly 
against it, were it not for the principles in¬ 
volved, and my firm belief that an enlight¬ 
ened and comprehensive handling of the 
whole question must not only honour British 
horticulture, but bring profit to British 
trade. 
It is inconceivable to me that any amateur 
member of the society should fail to sup¬ 
port the new scheme, and if amateurs sup- 
rt it, its adoption is assured. I earnestly 
pe, in that case, that trade members, for¬ 
getting the past, will heartily support the 
society and guard their legitimate interests 
m the position of dignity and inauem-. 
will be open to them in the propo^^ 
visory committee. ^ ^ 
The trade have hitherto borne th, W.. 
and burden of the day. It is no* fw „ 
teurs to come forward and take up the » •, 
Great past experience is not es^enti.l t 
cause all the alleged varieties will W ipvn 
Side by side for comparison. Thb can, 
be done on one-third of an acre Will tsl- 
who are willing to join the Genera! 
mittee kindly inform me accordinjflt 
soon as they see the proposed ruW. in 
that matters may take shape at the r.tu 
meeting without‘undue loss of time* Mut 
will join the societv as soon as it is 
upon a new basis; but it devolves uixtn t W 
who are now in it to bring about the* chitj^ 
It is most important that the propoM^ 
rules should be accepted as they stawTi. 
cause if members suggest modifications tke, 
will be endless confusion at the meeting, m 
this could not in any case deal with'irt 
infportant modification unless it had it', 
ceived the acceptance of a majority of »■. 
hers who desired to vote uj^n it. TVr* 
will be opportunities later of consi<krjf 
any amendments that may then come 
ward. 
Finally, I would a^k every amateur 
can to attend the annual meeting. It ;♦ 
hard to expect traders to carry througk en¬ 
thusiastically proposals which are of a wtire 
that many of them have hitherto ojmosed 
Upton-on-Severn. Hilda Hemh. 
AWARDS TO ANTIRRHINUMS 
AT WISLEY. 
The following awards have been made t# 
antirrhinums at Wisley by the llerii 
Committee : 
Award of Merit.—To (No. 3) Amber 
Messrs. Barr and Sons, Covent Garden; 
4), .A.mber Queen, Messrs. Watkins and 
son; (No. 12 ), Beacon, Messrs. J. Vcitfk Ml 
Sons, Chelsea; (No. 13), Beauty. 
Barr and Sons, Covent Garden : ^ 
Bonfire, Messrs. Simpson, Birmingham i- 
18), Bonfire, Eobert Sydenham Limited^ 
mingham; (No. 37), Carmine 
Messrs. Watkins and Simpwn: 
Coccinea, Messrs. Hurst and ^n, 
ditch; (No. 56), Crimson lv'ng..yj._ 
Hurst and Son, 
Daphne, Messrs. Hurst g g. 
ditch; (No. 69), Rt» 
Bath. Wisbech; x-f.-i, (.v 
Messrs. E. H. Bath, Wisbech; 
den Morn, Messrs. IVatkins and ■ ^ 
(No. 90), Golden Qu^n 
Bath; (No. 111). 
and Co., Edinburgh; (No, V 
Messrs. Bobbie and Co., C • ' 
Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons; (>o. . ,, 5 ^ 
Victoria, Messrs. J. ?i jn- and > 
149), Rosy Morn, Mc^rs. " ^ 
son; (No. 151), Salmon Pmk. ■ ^ ^ 
Veitch and Son, Exe^r: (i • 
Messrs. Dickson and ' ' pobb>*^ 
(No. 178). White Beauty. P<W- 
Co.; (No.- 182). V Totd 
and Co., (No. 185). bellow, )|eP 
and Sons; (No. 1^), YelIo» ^ 
Barr and Sons; (>o. 193'’ 
Messrs. Hurst and Son. .tlbiiw^ 
Highly CommendM--(>o- 
F. C. Heinemann, 041 , 
Messrs. Barr and Sons; G 30 ,. ^ 
Rose, Messrs. R. H. ®at • 1,^ i. 
Queen, Messrs. IVatkms and.^^F 
45), Coral Red, ^niefeson and 
(No. 58), Dainty, 
son ; (No. 63). Dainty jight, 
ham Limited ; (No. jf^ssrs- ^ j 
H. Bath: (No. 83). Gal^-f^rs. 
Sons; (No. 112), 
Son; (No. 126), , JiV Tiak 
kins and Simpson; G %„pson: 
Messrs. Watkins ^^^and Co- 
Roseura, Messrs. J- I" , . carmmo. 
Park; (No. 156). .Scarlet 1S3\. > 
Dickson and ’-a Son: 1 ^* 
Queen, Messrs. Hurst 
Yellow Prince, Messrs. H 
