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Susquehanna County. 



Name. Place. Acres. 



E. A. Smith, Heart Lake, 7 



E. B. Sprout, Montrose, 9 



Geo. Sprout, Montrose, 2 



B. D. Hinds, Montrose, 2 



Venango County. 



H. S. Sutton & Son, : . .Franklin, 6 



Westmoreland County. 

 John McAdams, Mt. Pleasant 8 



York County. 



J. A. Patterson, Stewartstown, 15 



Geo. E. Stein, East Prospect, 5 



W. S. Newcomer Glenrock, 3 



J. G. Patterson, Stewartstown, 40 



Four other nurseries in this State have been inspected, found in- 

 fested, and condemned; but as the owners have not filed the affidavit 

 to fumigate, as required by law, they hold no certificate and can not 

 legally sell any kind of nursery stock. 



It must not be inferred that the San Jos^ Scale was found in all or 

 even most of the nurseries belonging to the persons named above, 

 for it was not. In justice to our nurserymen, it must be said that in 

 general we have found them most anxious to learn what pests may 

 be present upon their premises in order that they may take all pos- 

 sible measures to suppress them and sell only clean stock. — From 

 the Monthly Bulletin of the Division of Zoology. 



CALL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF A NURSERYMEN'S ASSO- 

 CIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



We have been asked by some of the prominent nurserymen of this 

 State to aid them in the preliminary work of establishing a Nursery- 

 men's Association. We are requested to issue a call for a prelim- 

 inary meeting of all persons directly or indirectly interested in this 

 important profession, and consequently take pleasure in hereby sug- 

 gesting that the best time and place for this is during the Annual 

 Meeting of the State Horticultural Association, at Lancaster, during 

 the 19th and 20th of this month. 



It is therefore requested that all persons who desire to receive the 

 benefits of such a society meet at the Court House at Lancaster at 

 4.30 P. M., on Tuesday, January 19, for discussing plans and organiz- 



