FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE NURSERY 



INSPECTOR. 



To the Secretary of the Board of AgricuUnre. 



I have the honor to submit herewith the fourth annual 

 report of the State Nursery Inspector. 



The duties of the inspector during 1905 have not been 

 different in any way from those hitherto performed, and the 

 work has been carried on in the usual manner. Every year 

 a few requests for spring inspection have been made and 

 fulfilled, and a few inspections of places where continuous 

 sales occur have been made in July, in order that there 

 might be no time between the expiration of one certificate 

 and the granting of the next; and the present year has been 

 no different from preceding ones in this regard. Most of 

 the work, however, as heretofore, has been done in August 

 and September. 



As regards the places visited, several former nurserymen 

 are now out of business, but others have started nurseries, 

 the entire number of places to visit being one hundred and 

 twenty-eight, held by one hundred and twenty owners. Of 

 these, one hundred and eighteen have been inspected and 

 have received certificates ; one is so infested that sales are 

 made in accordance with the fumigation requirements of the 

 law ; and one is for sale as a whole, the owner having died, 

 and no business is being transacted pending such sale. 



The most common pests found on nursery stock in Massa- 

 chusetts were considered in the last report of the inspector. 

 Since then, however, the investigations of the State Gypsy 

 Moth Commission have shown a much wider distribution of 

 the gypsy and brown-tail moths than was then supposed. 

 Despite this, the gypsy moth is as yet not a greater factor 

 in nursery inspection than before, as its increased territory 

 has not seemed to bring it into any of the nurseries. With 



