8o THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



]Mr. Hoyt : I think it is one of the most outrageous pieces 

 of legislation that was ever passed, to cause the nurserymen 

 to fumigate a tree, when there is no law made for the man 

 outside of the nursery to do anything to kill the scales on his 

 trees. How is the nurseryman to keep his nursery clean 

 when his neighbor has them on his apple trees and other trees, 

 and they will spread into his nursery? If you are going to make 

 the nurseryman fumigate, make the man next to him fumi- 

 gate too. It delays business and it is a hindrance to the 

 man who wants his trees, and it is no good. 



Mr. Skillman : It is a perfect outrage on the nurseryman 

 that he should be compelled to fumigate his trees, and it is 

 an outrage on me that I should be compelled to buy them. 



A Member: I think I would just as soon buy my trees 

 of Mr. Hoyt, for I believe he is an honest person, but all 

 nurserymen are not built that way, and the reason why the 

 nurserymen were compelled to fumigate was because they 

 were distributing the San Jose scale. Nobody has demon- 

 strated yet that an orchard has become infested from the 

 fruit itself ; it may be possible, but there is not one case in ten, 

 and while I don't believe in compelling nurserymen to fumi- 

 gate, still I think they ought to. 



A Member : I can't see how the .nurseryman suffers in any 

 way, when he has an examiner to certify that his nursery is 

 free from scale. I should think that would help, rather than 

 hurt him. 



Mr. Derby : I have never seen a certificate given yet that 

 was full and complete. The inspector always gets around it 

 by sa3-ing they appear to be free, and that is all he can give. 

 If this fumigation did the work, and it was no detriment to the 

 ■ tree, as we thought in the first place, you can easily see it 

 is right that legislation should be had so that no nurseryman 

 would send out any nursery stock infested with the San Jose 

 scale, but as it stands to-day, I believe the law is of no 

 effect whatever, and it certainlv is a detriment to the vitality 

 of the trees in probably ninety trees out of a hundred. 



Mr. Jewell: I would like to ask Mr. Skillman what is 

 the advantage in putting on the lime and sulphur wash hot, 



