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of the trees die. The principals being on the ground and having reputations 

 to sustain, it is to their interest to sell only such stock as are true to name, 

 and the substitution of other varieties than those wanted cannot be done 

 without consent. In case of mistakes, they are more easily rectified ; the risk 

 of diseases and .pests is minimised ; the opportunity of visiting the nursery 

 and inspecting the stock before buying ; the necessity and expense of inspection 

 is avoided, for it must be remembered that all nursery stock from any point 

 outside of the Province must be sent to Vancouver and there inspected by a 

 quarantine officer of the Board, and the fees paid before same is allowed to 

 be moved. 



Prof. S. W. Fletcher, in Bulletin No. 53, on "Nursery Stock for 

 Washington Orchards," decants as follows on this point : 



"The distinction between nearby and distant nurserymen should not be 

 made on the mere distance of the nursery from the proposed location of the 

 orchard, nor should it be made on state lines. It should be drawn between 

 well-marked geographical and horticultural districts. Thus the Coast regions 

 of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia naturally constitute one great 

 horticultural district, the irrigated valleys of Eastern Washington, Oregon, 

 Idaho, and British Columbia another, and the unirrigated uplands in these 

 same sections still another. Orchardists in each of these districts will gener- 

 ally find it for their interest to purchase nursery stock which has been grown 

 within the limits of the district. Of course, exceptions rise up on every side. 

 Here are fine orchards in the Yakiina Valley which came from Eastern stock ; 

 there are profitable Sound orchards which came from irrigated stock, and 

 so on. But the general trend of evidence, and the opinion of some of our 

 best fruit-growers, is that local stock is better. When its other advantages 

 are considered, one comes to believe that in the end it is cheaper." 



As I said before, this advice is given, not with the object of injuring the 

 reputation of extra-provincial nurserymen, but with the sole object of giving 

 what I believe to be good, sound advice to those of our people who need it. 

 When purchasing from nurserymen at points without the Province it is well 

 that the point regarding inspection, previously alluded to, should be clearly 

 understood. 



Attention is also directed to the provisions of section 17 of the " Horti- 

 cultural Board Act," which reads as follows : 



" No person, firm, or corporation shall engage or continue in the business 

 of selling, as principal, agent, solicitor, or otherwise, within the Province, fruit 

 trees, plants, or nursery stock, or of importing for sale fruit trees, plants, or 

 nursery stock into the Province, without first having obtained a licence to 

 carry on such business in the Province as in this Act provided." 



All 'persons authorised to sell nursery stock in this Province are required 

 by their principals, or by themselves, to deposit bonds, in the Department of 

 Agriculture, Victoria, for the faithful performance of their obligations. The 

 public is, therefore, warned not to purchase nursery stock except from duly 

 licensed persons. Licences expire on the 31st day of December of each year. 



The following, by George C. Atwood, in " Country Gentleman," is as 

 applicable to the purchasers of trees, and to nurserymen and agents, in 

 Canada as in the United States: 



