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| ronounced apparently free of scale by the inspector. Fifty 
certificates of inspection have been issued—nearly twice the 
vumber issued last season. 
The names and addresses of the Louisiana nurserymen hold- 
ing valid certificates are given in a table on a subsequent page, 
and to this table the reader is referred for further details re- 
garding the amount and kind of stock grown by each nursery- 
man. 
Since this inspection system was inaugurated in the season 
. Of 1905-06 the amount of nursery stock grown in the State has 
increased almost four hundred per cent. Last season the in- 
spectors of the Commission examined 683,550 growing market- 
able trees and shrubs, whereas this season the number has been 
increased to 2, 207,319. 
On the whole the status of the nursery business of the State 
is most encouraging. The extraordinary increase of salable stock 
in the one season, the increased number of nurseries inspected, 
and the diminution in percentage of nurseries infested, all point 
to the fact that the protection and assistance given by the Com- 
mission to both buyers and sellers of nursery stock, has had the 
éffect of materially stimulating the State’s fruit industries. 
THE NurRSERY INSPECTION REGULATIONS. 
The provisions of the nursery inspection regulations are in 
brief as follows: Every nursery doing business in the State 
must be inspected at least once each year, and, if found appar- 
ently free of dangerously injurious insects and plant diseases, 
the nurseryman is granted a certificate of inspection which en- 
titles him to do business until the first of the following 
July, on which date the nursery inspection season ends each 
year. Copies of this certificate of inspection are printed upon 
ordinary shipping tags, and at least one of these tags must be 
attached to every bundle, bale, or package of nursery stock 
shipped or delivered within the State. As regards outside 
nurserymen shipping into Louisiana, certificates of inspection 
from the State Entomologists of their states are accepted in lieu 
of our tags. 
These tags, besides being a great protection to both buyers 
and sellers of nursery stock, are also a great advertisement for 
