SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE STATE NDESERY 



INSPECTOR. 



To the State Board of Agriculture. 



I have the honor to present herewith the sixteenth annual 

 report of the State Nursery Inspector. 



For two years now the nursery inspector has had, in addition 

 to his former duties, the work on the white pine bUster Rust 

 in this State. Last year this duty took much of his attention. 

 This year, with much more work and a larger appropriation 

 for the rust work, it was evident that it would be impossible 

 for him to give much personal attention to the ordinary inspec- 

 tion work, and for that reason all supervision of the nursery 

 inspection, except where matters of policy or important details 

 arose has been in charge of Chief Deputy R. H. Allen who has 

 had a number of years' experience, and who has mainly pre- 

 pared that part of this report which deals with the inspection 

 service. 



White Pine Blister Rust Work. In Co-operation with 

 THE United States Bureau of Plant Industry. 



A year ago, when my annual report was made, we had for the 

 first time a fairly complete knowledge of the status of the blister 

 rust disease in Massachusetts. Every town in the State had 

 been visited, and more or less complete knowledge of its condition 

 had been obtained. Three large areas having an apparently 

 continuous infection had been found, viz., in Essex County, 

 southern Berkshire County, and a belt from Kingston across 

 to the Rhode Island line, and extending about from Quincy to 

 Kingston at its eastern end, and from Franklin to Fall River 

 on the west. 



At the beginning of the season our inadequate knowledge of 

 the situation had led to the belief that these areas were much 



