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SUMMARY OF FOREIGN NURSERY STOCK RECEIPTS. 

 Dec. 1, 1915, to Dec. 1, 1916. 



No. of No. of 



Shipped from Cases. Plants. 



Holland 372 128,758 



Belgium 104 3,831 



France 55 385,280 



England 6 15,154 



Bermuda 1 200 



Japan 28 1,573 



.Scotland 3 16.000 



Total 569 550.796 



This represents 108 shipments. All plants were inspected by 

 us. While no stock lias been received from Germany during the 

 year, it is surprising to note that in this, the third year of the war. 

 there were 32,466 more plants imported than in the second vear 

 (1915). 



This importation of foreign stock is a menace to our domestic 

 plants and trees, however, because of the diseases and insects, 

 which may find their way into the countrv in spite of a tliorough 

 inspection of the stock, and we believe it would be highly advisable 

 for the United States to discontinue all importations of foreign 

 stock to this country with the exception of such stock as is brought 

 in by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. for experimental purposes. 



When we 'look at the vast amount of damage done in the past, 

 and the property loss at the present time caused by these imported 

 pests, as in the case of the chestnut Idight, the citrus canker, the 

 brown tail moth, and the white pine blister rust, Ave feel that a 

 quarantine against all pAiropean stock is advisable. 



MINNESOTA NURSERIES INSPECTED AND HOLDING CERTIFI- 

 CATES GOOD UNTIL NOVEMBER, 1917. 



Certilicate 

 Name of Nursery Numl)er Insnected by 



The Albert Lea Nursery .\lbert Lea 84.1 .\ng. 24 F. L. Washburn 



O. M. Peterson 

 Minnesota State Nursery 



(Dealer) \lbert Lea 39 



The South Side Nursery \lbert Lea S42 Aug. 24 F. L. Washburn 



Martin Fridholm 

 Wedge Nursery \lbert Lea 884 Sept. 14 G. W. Peake 



Clarence Wedge 

 Alexandria Fruit Farm and 



Nursery Alexandria 859 Sept. 14 \V. D. Valieau 



W. H. Horton 

 Ferndale _ \skov 888 Sept. 11 \V. D. Valleau 



Ludvig Mosback 



Atwater Fruit Farm (Dealer) . .Atwater 38 



The .Austin Nursery \ustin 845 .\ug. 24 F. L. Washburn 



C. F. Woodle 

 The Turtle Creek Nursery .\ustin 844 .Aug. 24 F. L. Washburn 



.T. M. Lindsav 



A. N. Kinsman, Inc. (Dealers) , Austin 32 Sept. 1 



The Battle Lake Nursery Battle Lake 925 Sept. 13 W. D. Valleau 



A. A. DeSmidt 

 The J. E. Swedberg Nurserv 



(Dealers) '...Battle Lake 27 April 6 



Laudenback Nursery P.agley 863 Sept. 4 C. M. Corzet 



Tom Laudenback 



