34 NURSERY INSPECTION. 



Oregon : Stock on arrival is subject to inspection at 

 specified quarantine stations. Mr. Geo. H. Lamberson, Sec- 

 retary State Board of Horticulture, Portland, Oregon. 



Pennsylvania : Nurseries are inspected twice each year. 

 Transportation companies are required to reject all nursery 

 stock not accompanied by a certificate of inspection, and also 

 to reject all such stock entering the state without a certificate 

 of fumigation. Nursery stock shipped into the state from 

 another state, shall be plainly labeled on every package with 

 the name of the consignor, the name of the consignee, and the 

 certificate showing that the contents have been inspected by a 

 State or Government ofiicer and that the nursery stock, except- 

 ing conifers and herbaceous plants, are properly fumigated 

 and free from dangerously destructive insects and diseases. 

 (Chapter 60, Laws of 1905.) Prof. H. A. Surface, Econo- 

 mic Zoologist, Harrisburg, Pa. ; Mr. Enos B. Engle, Inspector, 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



Rhode Island : The State Board of Agriculture appoints 

 a State Nursery Inspector, whose duties shall be to inspect 

 nurseries and grant an annual certificate. Owners of nur- 

 series who shall fumigate all stock sold by them may make 

 affidavit of the fact and attach a copy to each package shipped 

 in lieu of a certificate of inspection. All nursery stock shipped 

 into the state shall bear on each package a certificate that the 

 contents have been inspected by an authorized inspecting offi- 

 cer. In case nursery stock is brought within the state without 

 such a certificate, the consignee shall return it to the consignor, 

 provided, however, that any package or box bearing a certifi- 

 cate of fumigation, which meets the requirements, may be 

 accepted as tho bearing a certificate of inspection. (Chap. 

 1 1 59, Laws of 190-I.. ) Mr. A. E. Stene, State Nursery In- 

 spector, King-ston, R. I. 



South Carolina: Nurseries must be inspected annually 

 and it is unlawful to sell or ship without a certificate. x'Ml 

 persons outside tlie state must register a copy of their certifi- 

 cate of inspection, furnished by the authorized official of the 

 state in which he resides, with the chairman of the Board of 

 Entomology, which copy shall state that in addition to inspec- 

 tion the nursery stock has been fumigated under the direction 

 of the official issuing the certificate. Upon the filing of the 

 proper certificate as prescribed any person outside the state 



