30 PROTECTION OF PLANTS, 1917-18 



the problem with which we are now dealing, but I want to make it plainly under- 

 stood that the white pine blister rust, if pretty well known, may not be after all 

 the worst of our forest pests, and I hope that nature will help us in the control of it. 



My last word will be to note with satisfaction the fact that for the first time 

 as far as I know, our governments. Federal and Provincial, have taken an interest 

 in the control of a forest tree disease and on such a scale that it justifies the best 

 hopes of the friends of the plants. 



