No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 137 



Licensed Tree Dealers. 



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

 license or certiiicate from the Department of Agriculture, permit- 

 ting him to transact his business in this. State. However, it is not 

 necessary for the tree agent to obtain such license. 



The ditference between the tree agent and tree dealer is that the 

 former represents some one nursery acting for them upon commis- 

 sion and not handling any stock beside that for ^yhich he has direct 

 orders. Of course it is impossible for any nursery to transact busi- 

 ness 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 the one which 

 his firm must obtain to transact business in the State. 



By the term "Tree Dealer" we refer to persons who make a busi- 

 ness of buying nursery stock from various places and selling it again 

 upon his own res.ponsibility 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 

 we then write to the State Nursery Inspectors in the respective 

 states named and learn of the nurseries named have been inspected, 

 and if the firms have in every way complied with the requirements 

 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 cer- 

 tificate is sent from this office to the tree dealer to sell stock from 

 those nurseries which we have investigated and found to have cer- 

 tificates, 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 ia its own state, the tree dealer is refused a cer- 

 tificate to sell stock from that nursery. 



Any tree dealer in this State should consequently be able to 

 show his certificate from this office and any agent should have cre- 

 dentials 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. F. Halfast, Wilkinsburg-, Pa. 

 H. M. Devoreaux, Swissvale, Pa. 

 W. B. Bockstose, Castle Shannon, Pa. 

 L. F. Miller, 1023 Garret St., Pittsburg-, Pa. 

 B. C. Hauser, Bellevue, Pa. 

 Charles Honess, Allegheny, Pa. 

 J. P. Zimmerman, Emsworth, Pa. 

 J. M. Fails, 1S07 Nunetta Ave., Pittsburg-, Pa. 



BEAVER COUNTY. 

 J. C. Withrow, Vanport, Pa. 

 J. H. Gutermuth, Rochester, Pa. 

 A. E. Crouch, Rochester, Pa. 



BERKS COUNTY. 

 Jacob H. Weand, Reading-, Pa. 

 M. E. Smeltzer, Reading, Pa. 

 Alfred Dreibelbis, Reading, Pa. 

 L. M. Neischwender, Hamburg, Pa. ; J. 



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