150 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



LICENSED TREE DEALERS. 



It is necessary for each tree dealer in Pennsylvania to procure a license or 

 certificate from the Department of Agriculture, permitting him to transact his 

 business in this State. However, it is not necessary for ^the tree agent to 

 obtain such license. 



The difference between the tree agent and tree dealer is, that the former 

 represents one nursery, acting for them upon commission and not handling any 

 stock beside that for which he has direct orders. Of couise it is impossible for 

 any nursery to transact business or sell or deliver stock in this State, without a 

 license, and consequently the person who is acting as direct agent for any 

 nursery is selling under the license or certificate of his firm. Thus the agent 

 is regarded as holding a license by virtue of tlie one which his firm must 

 obtain to transact business in the State. 



By the term "Tree Dealer" we refer to persons who make a business of buy- 

 ing nursery stock from various places and selling it again upon his own 

 responsibility or under his own name. Whenever we learn of a tree dealer in 

 this State, we ascertain of him the names and addresses of the firms from 

 which he procures his stock, and v/e then \vrite to the State Nursery Inspectors 

 in the respective states given and learn if the nurseries named have been 

 inspected, and if the firms have in every way complied with the rquirements 

 of the law in their states, and if they have a certificate for selling nursery 

 stock according to the regulations of the said state or states. Upon obtaining 

 this information, if all is favorable, a certificate is sent from this office to 

 the tree dealer to sell stock from those nurseries which we have investigated 

 and found to have certificates, but from those only. If it be found that any 

 nursery, the dealer named, in any State whatever, has not complied with the 

 legal requirements of said state and does not have, a certificate for the selling 

 of stock in its own state, the tree dealer is refused a certificate to sell stock 

 from that nursery. 



Any tree dealer in this State should consequently be able to show his cer- 

 tificate from this office and any agent should have credentials signed by the 

 nursery which he represents, and which he can show. He should also be able 

 to show conclusive evidence that his nursery holds a certificate of inspection in 

 the state where the stock is grown. 



The following is a list of licensed tree dealers in Pennsylvania at this date: 



ALLEGHENY COUNTY. 



C. P. Halfast, Wilkinsburg, Pa. E. C. Hauser, Bellevue, Pa. 



H. M. Devereaux, Swissvale, Pa. Charles Honess, Allegheny, Pa. 



W. B. Bockstose, Castle Shannon, Pa. J. F. Zimmerman, Emswoith, Pa. 



L. F. Miller, 1023 Garret St., Pittsburg, J. M. Fails, 1S07 Runette Ave., Pitts- 

 Pa. burg. Pa. 



BEAVER COUNTY. 



J. C. Withrow, Vanport, Pa. A. E. Crouch, Rochester, Pa. 



J. H. Gutermuth, Rochester, Pa. 



BERKS COUNTY. 



Jacob H. Wieand, Reading, Pa. Alfred Driebelbis, Reading, Pa. 



M. E. Smeltzer, Reading, Pa. L. M. Neischwender, Hamburg, Pa. 



BLAIR COUNTY. 

 James Hopkins, Junia,ta, Pa. 



BRADFORD COUNTY. 



J. F. Gable, Athens, Pa. J. P. Sibley, R. D. No. 16, Rome, Pa. 



Jos. E. Hamilton, R. D. No. 16, Rome. 

 Pa. 



BUCKS COUNTY. 

 A. P. Krautz, Silver Dale, Pa. 



BUTLER COUNTY. 

 Geo. W. Haine, R. D. No. 32, Gallery, Pa. 



CARBON COUNTY. 



Paul Neihoff, Lehighton, Pa. L. B. Wagner, Weissport, Pa. 



David N. Rehr, Lehighton, Pa. 



CHESTER COUNTY. 

 John Alcorn, Malvern, Pa. F. W. Richardson, Paoli, Pa. 



CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 

 Thos. W. Munro, DuBois, Pa. 



CLINTON COUNTY. 

 W. W. Richie, Lock Haven, Pa. 



