No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



173 



It was necessary to make one hundred and ninety inspections be- 

 fore the work was finished, of wliich total there were thirty-two 

 second inspections, ten third, and one fourth, making in all forty- 

 three having more than one inspection. There were seven of the 

 nurseries refused certificates to sell or otherwise dispose of stock. 

 With the exception of the forest reservations already referred to, 

 the number of acres comprising the remaining one hundred and forty- 

 five nurseries amounts to two thousand seven hundred and twenty 

 and one-half acres. The inspection further shows that nurseries 

 f omprising one thousand seven hundred a«d thirty-eight and one 

 lialf acres are maintained in very good condition; five hundred and 

 five acres in good condition; two hundred and twenty-four and one- 

 fourth acres m fair condition; one hundred and seventy and three- 

 fourth acres in indifferent condition; and the small total of seventy- 

 seven acres to be in a poorly kept condition. 



The following table shows the number of nurseries in each county: 



Nursery List Showing Number and Acreage by Counties. 



Counties. 



4> 



B 



3 



Adams, 



Allegh(Tiy. ... 



Beaver 



Bedford 



Berks 



Blair 



Bradford 



Bucks 



Butler, 



Chester. 



Clearfield 



Crawford. 



Cumberland, . 



Dauphin, 



Delaware, 



Erie, 



Fayette. 



Franklin 



Huntingdon, . 



Juniata 



Lackawanna. 

 Lancaster, ... 



Ivawrenee 



LehlKh 



Luzerne, 



Lycomlngr, 



Mercer 



Mifflin, 



Montgomery, . 

 Northampton, 



Perry, 



Philadelphia. 



Somerset, 



Venango 



Westmoreland 

 York 



Total. 



36 

 4 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 



2 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 7 

 3 

 1 

 5 

 1 

 1 

 1 



13 

 4 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 4 

 1 



13 

 2 

 1 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 3 



145 



122^4 

 36 

 38 



m 



0% 



8 



0V4 



20 !> 



30 

 97614 

 0% 



20 



50V4 



9 

 34 



24% 

 20 



7% 



QiA 

 in 



1 



nv2 



8 



22 

 3 



1 



8% 



1 

 410 



31/2 

 35 

 375 

 20 



6 



8 

 48 



2.72OV2 



Note.— Certificates have been Issued for the sale and shipment of "Rododendron-maxima" from 

 Luzerne county 8,000 acres and from Monroe county 2,000 acres. 



