In anticipation of the "white list" law, when I recently indexed the 66-year run of the Rock Garden Quarterly, I included notation of plants reported to be native, naturalized, or cultivated in North America. The NARGS seed lists are also useful in this respect, particularly since it can be ascertained which species were being grown, and producing garden-collected seed, in the USA. In addition, many of us keep detailed databases of plants we grow, at least those that are our special interest. Boyce Tankersley of the Chicago Botanic Garden wrote a good article about private plant collections and their value, which was published in the RGQ recently. My concern about a potential white list is the same as my concern about the Small Lots of Seed program. Even though the law may include a procedure for vetting and admitting imports, it is an unfunded mandate in that it doesn't provide extra funding and training for the federal employees who are to facilitate this process. It must be a practical law, not an ideal law. I hope that our Oregon representatives in Congress will be responsive to the needs of the state's extremely large and valuable nursery industry if such legislation is proposed. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA