174 Seventeenth Annual Report of tup: 



bulletins 



We have prepared and distributed during the year : 



(1) Horticultural Bulletin No. 2, an emergency bulletin on 

 the blister rust of pines and the European currant rust. 



(2) A G-page translation of Imperial Biological Institute; for 

 Agriculture and Forestry Circular No. 5, second edition, June, 

 1905, on Biology, Practical Importance and Control of the White 

 Pine Blister by Dr. Carl Freiherr Von Tubeuf, in Munich. 



(3) Horticultural Bulletin No. 3, a 20-page circular, Informa- 

 tion for Nurserymen, Custom House Brokers and Transportation 

 Companies Relative to Inspection, Certification and Transporta- 

 tion of Nursery Stock in the State of New York the Several States 

 and Canada. This embraces the orders of the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture to: (a) Transportation companies and agents; (b) 

 importers of nursery stock and custom house brokers; (c) dealers 

 in nursery stock ; (d) nurserymen. 



(4) Names and post offices of nurserymen. 



nursery inspection 



The work under this head has required more time and attention 

 this year than formerly, for the reasons that wherever importa- 

 tions of brown-tail moth nests were found in the shipments arriving 

 in the spring of the year, all plantings were carefully examined. 

 Fortunately, no infestation has been found, showing that the in- 

 spection of the imported stocks at the time of opening the boxes 

 and the subsequent dipping of the stocks in miscible oils and the 

 burning of the boxes and packing material proved entirely 

 successful. 



Many new names of nurserymen appear in the records this year 

 and there is an evident increase in the number of vounc; trees 

 being produced in the nurseries of the state. 



Less infested trees have been found in the nurseries this year 

 than formerly, but in some quarters it is becoming distressing] x 

 evident that whereas less trees arc found infested with San Jose 

 scale, a larger number of varieties are involved, showing regrettable 

 scattering or distribution of the pest. This latter fact explains 

 the importance of what has been heretofore recommended, viz.. 

 the thorough and careful fumigation of all buds, scions and cuttings 



