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CUT n.OW'EES. 



Romid bouquot, Mrs. W. B. Flick, first. 



Flat Iwuquet, Mrs. W. B. Flick, first. 



Collection mixed cut flowers, Mrs. W. B. Flick, first. 



Sylvester Johnson: Mr. President, I move you that this report be con- 

 curred In. 



Mr. Simpson: I second the motion. 



The motion was voted upon and carried. 



President Stevens: We will now have a report from Prof. Troop. 



Prof. Troop: Mr. President, I know that we were generally expected 

 to give a report of the work done during the year, and although it was 

 not on the program I prepared something of a report, because I considered 

 that the office of the State Entomologist is of importance to fruit growers. 

 It has been customary to give a report of the work that is done during 

 the year, and although this report is not complete, still it gives a practical 

 summing of the things that we have been doing. I want you to hear It 

 because I want you to realize if you can the importance of the work. 



REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BY J. E. TROOP. 



The work of this office during the past j^ear, like the year previous, 

 has been confined principally to the inspection of nurseries and orchards, 

 and to giving information concerning rhe hundreds of questions that 

 have been asked in regard to the San .Jose scale and other insects, etc. 

 I have been unable to do much more than this on account of the limited 

 funds at my disposal. 



When the present nursery inspection law was passed by the General 

 Assembly of 1899, the principal object in view, seemingly, was to provide 

 means for guarding against the introduction and spread of the San .Tose 

 scale, which was being introduced into the State from other states upon 

 nursery stock, and which was so much dreaded by all fruit growers. It 

 was the opinion of the committee having the bill in charge that the 

 present appropriation, viz.. one thousand dollars, would be a sufficient 

 amount to defraj- the necessary expenses of carrying the law into effect. 

 It was thought, no doubt, that all that the State p]ntomologist Avould have 

 to do would 1)0 to inspect tlie nurseries of the State once a year, and if 

 found free from injimous insects, etc., to grant the owners certificates to 



