REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE, 47 



out at the beginning of the sliipping season. Such shippers 

 were immediately notified that the greatest care must be 

 exercised as to kind of stock sent out, and that all nursery 

 stock must be properly fumigated according to law. All 

 recognized the importance of sending out nothing but clean 

 nursery stock, and agreed to comply with all the requirements 

 of the board, which I believe has been done. 



Notices to spray have usually been effective in securing 

 spraying, but much of the work in this line is not done so 

 thoroughly as it should be. This w^ill, in many instances, 

 require that the trees be sprayed again in the fall. A few old 

 orchards have been cut down as a result of notices having 

 been served on the owners, and this is often more satisfactory 

 to all parties interested than to attempt to renovate trees 

 which have long since passed the age of usefulness. 



More interest is being taken in the work of the board this 

 season than for some time past, and a large number of letters 

 have been received, during the past three weeks, requesting a 

 visit this spring. These visits will be made as soon as the 

 roads will permit. 



One shipment of nursery stock sent from the east was found 

 to be badly diseased, and was ordered destroyed. Two lots 

 of apples infested with San Jose scale were also condemned 

 and destroyed. 



One thing wiiicli is ver}^ important, and which, I believe, 

 the board should undertake to secure, is the importation of 

 parasitic insects which prey upon scale. The little beetle, 

 Pentilia MisseUa, is found in many places, but is by no means 

 sufficient to furnish a check to the scale, and it would be of 

 great benefit if other similiar insects were secured. 



L. T. REYNOLDS, 



Commissioner Second District. 



