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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



room where it can deveU^p symmetrically it 

 makes a handsome tree. The White spruce 

 varies much in the color of the I'oliajje, and 

 bv a careful selection specimens may be 

 obtained which almost equal the Blue spruce 

 in beautv of coloring-. If one cannot afl'ord 

 to buy trees of other species one can get 

 much satisfaction trom throwing a White 



spruce. The trees should be planted when 

 quite young to get the best results, and they 

 should be branched almost to the ground. 

 If larger trees are planted they are liable to 

 be scraggy or will become so. 



W. T. Macoun, 

 Horticulturist. Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa. 



IMPORTATION OF NURSERY STOCK. 



Order in Council. 



His Excellency, in virtue of the provisions 

 of section 5. chapter 23. 61 \'ictoria, intituled 

 " An Act to protect Canada from the Insect 

 Pest known as the San Jose Scale," and of 

 63-64 \'ictoria, chap. 31. '* An Act to amend 

 the San Jose Scale Act." and by and with 

 the advice of the Queen's Privy Council for 

 Canada, is pleased to order that exemption 

 from the operations of the above mentioned 

 .\ct shall be and is hereby authorized of any 

 trees, shrubs, plants, vines, grafts, cuttings 

 of buds, commonly called Nursery Stock 

 from any country or state to which ' ' The 

 San Jose Scale Act "" applies : and that all 

 importations thereof shall be and are hereby 

 permitted to be entered at the Customs 

 Ports only of St. John. N. B., St. John's, 

 Que., Niagara Falls and Windsor, Ont. , and 

 Winnipeg. Manitoba, between the following 

 dates in each year ; in the spring-, and in the 

 autumn ; and at \"ancouver, British Colum- 

 bia, during the winter months only, at which 

 ports they will be thoroughlv fumigated with 

 hydrocyanic acid gas by a competent Gov- 

 ernment official in accordance with the most 

 approved methods. 



All shipments made in accordance with the 

 above will be entirely at the risk of the ship- 

 pers or consig-nees, the Government assum- 

 ing no risk whatever. 



Packagfes must be addressed so as to enter 

 Canada at one of the above named ports of 

 entr\-, and the route by which they will be 

 shipped must be clearly stated upon each 

 packag-e. 



As it is well known that w-ell matured and 

 thoroughly dormant nurserv* stock may be 

 safely treated, but that there is danger of 

 serious injury- to the trees if fumigated in the 

 autumn before the buds are thoroughly dor- 

 mant, or in the spring after the buds have 

 begun to unfold, all stock which when re- 

 ceived is immature or too far advanced for 

 safe treatment will be refused entr\' and held 

 at the risk of the shipper. 



His Excellency, in virtue of the provisions 

 of section 7 of the .Act first above mentioned, 

 is pleased to direct that the authority herein 

 granted be published in the Canada Gasette. 



John J. McGee, 

 Clerk of the Privv Council. 



