114 Ninth Annual Report of the 



It has been the invariable rule in the inspection of nurseries 

 to destroy every tree or plant on which the San Jose' Scale was 

 found, together with adjoining trees. Infested orchard trees 

 in proximity to nursery stock are condemned and burned, and 

 the Department has required all nurserymen to fumigate stock 

 dug for shipping from blocks or fields in which scale has been 

 found. Two, three or more inspections were made of nurseries 

 where it was known that the scale had been found in the vicin- 

 ity, and every such place has been throughout the summer un- 

 der the care of an inspector, aided in every instance by the 

 owner. It is the intention of the Department that its certifi- 

 cates shall be entirely reliable, and that they are so is shown in 

 that out of the shipment of millions of trees and plants from 

 this State in 1901, only one case of scale was reported back to 

 the Department as having been sent out by a nurseryman hold- 

 ing certificate, and that was traced to an old, transplanted 

 block, where the inspection was made in July — before the breed- 

 ing season of the scale. 



There are now twenty-three houses specially prepared for the 

 fumigation of nursery stock by the New York State nurserymen, 

 and some growers fumigate a whole or a part of the stock they 

 handle; some fumigating all stock shipped, notwithstanding the 

 fact that no scale has ever been found on their premises. 



Following is an estimate of the varieties and number of trees 

 growing in New York nurseries in 1900-1901 (figures never be- 

 fore collected), as reported by inspectors, from information ob- 

 tained at the time of inspection, giving a very fair idea of the 

 extent and growth of the nursery business in this State: 



Apple 



Pear 



Pear, dwarf 



Plum 



Cherry 



Peach 



Quince 



