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fumigation boxes of not lots than thirty cubic feet capacity, 

 the same to be subject to inspection and approval. 



8. Immediately after inspection of the fumigation house 

 the Inspector will report to the Minister, and the Minister or 

 Inspector will thereupon give permission in writing for the 

 owner or proprietor to begin fumigation. 



9. The owner or proprietor of every nursery will attach 

 to every box and to every package of nursery stock a certificate 

 as follows, and he will furnish every purchaser who so desires 

 a copy of the same: 



Certificate of fumigation. This is to certify that this 



package of nursery stock, consisting of was 



properly fumigated on or about the day of 



1901, in accordance with the regulations prescribed by order 

 of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, in accordance with 

 62d Victoria, Chapter 35. 



Amount of nursery stock fumigated. We have in 

 Ontario 117 names on the nursery list, but probably it 

 would be more nearly correct to say that there are not 

 more than 100 different nurserymen in Ontario, about 

 four-fifths of the work being done by five or six of the 

 largest nurserymen. Three out of every four nursery- 

 men on the list do nothing more than a local business, 

 but the four or five large concerns handle an immense 

 amount of stock. It is somewhat difficult to get informa- 

 tion from Canadian nurserymen regarding the amount of 

 stock fumigated. However, one large nurseryman 

 wrote me as follows : " It is a hard matter to give 

 any accurate report as to the number of trees put 

 through our fumigation house in a year, but would 

 estimate that the trees would be about as follows : 

 200,000 apples, 25,000 pears, 40,000 plums, 35,000 

 cherries, 50,000 peaches, 50,000 ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, 135,000 small fruits making a total of 535,- 



