﻿566 
  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Keport 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  The 
  number 
  of 
  nui-seiy 
  trees 
  burned 
  ranged 
  as 
  follows: 
  5,000, 
  

   2,224, 
  S59, 
  526, 
  674, 
  114, 
  40, 
  35, 
  2, 
  1, 
  1. 
  

  

  The 
  lot 
  of 
  5,000 
  were 
  peacb 
  trees 
  left 
  in 
  nursery 
  trenches 
  until 
  

   practically 
  unsalable, 
  and 
  none 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  out 
  last 
  season. 
  Al- 
  

   though 
  the 
  scale 
  had 
  spread 
  throughout 
  the 
  lot, 
  none 
  could 
  be 
  

   found 
  on 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  orchard 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity. 
  

  

  The 
  lot 
  of 
  2,224 
  were 
  trees 
  purchased 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1899, 
  and 
  

   were, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  clear 
  when 
  set 
  out 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  nursery 
  containing 
  

   a 
  few 
  rows 
  of 
  infested 
  stock. 
  There 
  were 
  some 
  large 
  infested 
  

   apple 
  and 
  pear 
  trees 
  near, 
  and 
  these, 
  with 
  the 
  infested 
  stock, 
  sufficed 
  

   to 
  introduce 
  the 
  scale 
  throughout 
  the 
  new 
  stock. 
  As 
  the 
  stock 
  

   sold 
  at 
  this 
  nursery, 
  last 
  spring, 
  was 
  nearly 
  all 
  purchased 
  stock, 
  it 
  

   is 
  not 
  believed 
  that 
  the 
  scale 
  was 
  spread 
  to 
  other 
  places, 
  but 
  had 
  

   no 
  inspection 
  been 
  made 
  there 
  would, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  wide 
  

   distribution 
  this 
  fall 
  and 
  next 
  spring. 
  

  

  The 
  infestation 
  of 
  859 
  trees 
  was 
  likewise 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  planting 
  

   of 
  new 
  stock 
  among 
  a 
  few 
  slightly 
  infested 
  trees, 
  which 
  the 
  nursery- 
  

   man 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  free, 
  although 
  he 
  knew 
  that 
  scale 
  had 
  been 
  in 
  

   the 
  block 
  previously. 
  i 
  

  

  The 
  infestation 
  of 
  674 
  was 
  plainly 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  planting 
  of 
  

   eight 
  lindens, 
  which 
  were 
  infested 
  close 
  to 
  a 
  block 
  of 
  apple. 
  As 
  

   in 
  the 
  preceding 
  cases 
  the 
  scaly 
  stock 
  would 
  have, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  been 
  

   sent 
  out 
  without 
  its 
  condition 
  being 
  kno\vn, 
  for, 
  though 
  the 
  lindens 
  

   were 
  so 
  thickly 
  incrusted 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  already 
  dying 
  back, 
  the 
  apples 
  

   would 
  not 
  seem 
  at 
  all 
  infested, 
  except 
  when 
  examined 
  more 
  closely 
  

   than 
  a 
  nurseryman 
  or 
  buyer 
  would 
  do. 
  The 
  lindens 
  are 
  thought 
  

   to 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  without 
  the 
  State, 
  but 
  the 
  record 
  which 
  would 
  

   make 
  this 
  fact 
  certain 
  has 
  been 
  lost. 
  Except 
  the 
  surplus 
  trees 
  

   set 
  in 
  the 
  nursery, 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  a 
  private 
  party 
  

   who 
  was 
  glad 
  to 
  burn 
  the 
  infested 
  trees, 
  twenty-nine 
  in 
  num- 
  

   ber, 
  when 
  their 
  condition 
  was 
  brought 
  to 
  his 
  notice. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  remaining 
  smaller 
  infestation 
  pains 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  taken 
  

   to 
  learn 
  if 
  any 
  stock 
  likely 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  infested 
  was 
  sent 
  out 
  last 
  

   spring, 
  and 
  in 
  one 
  case 
  only 
  does 
  it 
  seem 
  probable 
  that 
  any 
  infested 
  

   stock 
  was 
  sent 
  out. 
  

  

  