Part I.l 



STATE NURSERY INSPECTOR. 



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Unidentified Insects. 



A few calls for the examination of places outside of nurseries, 

 believed by their owners to be menaced by the presence of 

 dangerous insects or diseases near by, have been received and 

 attended to. 



Spring inspection for the pine shoot moth has been made as 

 heretofore, with encouraging results, the insect being found 

 only in a few cases. 



White Pine Blister Rust. In Co-operation with the 

 United States Bureau of Plant Int)ustry. 

 Last year's report presented a general outline of the situa- 

 tion in- Massachusetts as regards this disease so far as it was 

 then known. In brief, the nurseries were all believed to be free 

 from it, and only two sections of the State were known to be 

 generally infected, viz., a portion of Essex County and quite a 

 part of Berkshire County. In addition to these two areas, 

 single plantations here and there were known to be infected, 

 and the trees concerned were being destroyed as the disease 

 showed itself. A few scattered cases of currant infection in 

 southeastern ^Massachusetts, discovered late in the fall, where 

 no pine infection was known, were problems needing investi- 

 gation to determine whether they indicated an unknown pine 

 infection in that region, or that the disease had just entered 

 that area on the currants. 



