98 GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



INSPECTION OF MINNESOTA NURSERIES AND OF IM- 

 PORTED STOCK: RECENT FEDERAL LEGISLATION 

 AFFECTING NURSERYMEN. 



In 1911 fifty-two nurseries were inspected and the $232.75 col- 

 lected therefor was deposited with the State Treasurer. Nurseries 

 receiving certificates in 1911 are as follows: 



Vine Grove Nursery The Faribault Nursery 



Rose Hill Nursery Dodge County Nursery 



Thos. Redpath Nursery Pioneer Nursery 



Deephaven Nursery Vinegar Hill Nursery 



Hawkinson Nursery Clinton Falls Nursery 



Hoyt Nursery Co. Farmers Seed & Nursery Co. 



Park Nurseries Winnebago Nursery 



Howard Lake Nurseries Mankato Nursery 



Strand Nursery Mitchell Nursery Co. 



Wright Co. Nursery Fillmore Co. Nursery 



Jewel Nursery Co. Preston Nursery 



Sacred Heart Nursery Andrews Nursery 



Madison Nursery West Concord Nursery 



Orton Park Nursery Byron Nursei-y 



St. John Nursery Co. Plainview Berry Farm 



Amber Lake Nursery Wilwerding's Nursery 



Wedge Nursery Northwestern Nursery Co. 



Turtle Lake Nursery Sivert's Nursery 



Fairmont Nursery Mayfield Nurseries 



Tolleson Nursery Deerfield Nursery 



National Nursery Co. Spring Valley Nursery 



Friedhohn Nursery Co. Hiawatha Gardens Co. 



Albert Lea Nursery Co. Old-Fashioned Flower Garden 



Hutchinson Nursery Chicago Lake Nursery 



Johnson Nursery Co. Luverne Nursery 



Minnesota State Nursery Co. Norway Poplar Forest Grove 



On account of the drought of the summer of 1910 and the dry- 

 ness during- the first part of 1911, some nursery stocl<; was not in 

 particularly good condition. Strawberry plants suffered severely; 

 on the other hand, apple trees did surprisingly well. San Jose 

 Scale was found in two nurseries (shipped into Minnesota during 

 the spring of 1911) on currants, fruiting and flowering kind, on 

 plum trees and golden spirea from New York and Pennsylvania. 

 This infested stock was at once destroyed. The Poplar Beetle was 

 quite destructive, but it may be easily controlled. The existence 

 of Putnam's Scale, Oyster Shell Scale and Scrufy Scale on trees ad- 

 jacent to nursery stock was pointed out to nurserymen and the ne- 

 cessity for cleaning up was emphasized. While these are not to be 

 particularly feared in Minnesota, a shipment of nursery stock bear- 

 ing any one of them to a western state wheie laws are stringent 



