NURSERY INSPECTION. 31 
A criticism upon the law is made by some because a party not 
in the nursery business cannot ship a bundle of shrubs or trees from 
any point in the State to another without Certificate of Inspection 
signed by the State Entomologist attached to the package. This 
criticism is met with in the case of a citizen, not a nurseryman, 
desiring to ship stock, by the Entomologist giving a permit upon 
proper investigation, which permit is accepted by the expressman 
or at the freight office: or when desirable, stock can be sent to the 
Experiment Station and inspected there by the Entomologist and 
then forwarded to the consignee. In such case the shipper or the 
consignee must bear the expense of carriage coincident with this 
examination. This feature of the law, and the provision made for 
it by this office, must appear just to any one who bears in mind that 
this material, coming from a garden not inspected, might, for all 
we know, or the owner knows, to the contrary, harbor scale or other 
injurious insects or plant disease, and if permitted to be taken with- 
out inspection to another part of the state, might readily be the 
cause of spreading a pest or pests within our State border. Ina 
few instances we have permitted private parties shipping a package 
not intended for trade purposes, to use the certificate of a nursery- 
man friend. This privilege has been abused, however, and hereafter 
each and every shipment of this kind must be accompanied by an 
official permit. In this connection we again remind our citizens 
that the Federal law is so constituted that no one in Minnesota 
can ship by parcel post without every and all shipments bearing 
Certificates of Inspection issued by the State Entomologist. State 
officials are of course powerless to change the Federal statute. 
We find that quite a number of private parties who own gardens 
make it a point to sell plants, etc. Naturally, these should be 
inspected and receive a certificate, if entitled to same, for they come 
under the definition of “nursery,” namely “a place where plants, 
trees, vines, shrubs. etc., are grown for sale.” 
TWO ENEMIES OF THE NURERYMAN: 
San Jose Scale and Crown Gall. 
The presence of oyster shell scale on the apple in increasing 
abundance in Minnesota is of course a menace to the growing of 
good trees, and the woolly aphis of the apple, apparently on the 
increase here, would prevent a nurseryman from obtaining a certif- 
icate if present upon his trees in sufficiently large numbers. 
