THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE 

 NURSERY INSPECTOR. 



To the State Board of Agriculture. 



I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual 

 report of the State Nursery Inspector. 



Nursery inspection and the duties connected with it are 

 very unequally distributed during the calendar year. During 

 January, February and a part of March there is usually only 

 work enough for one inspector. About the middle of jNIarch 

 import shipments of nursery stock begin to appear, and these 

 rapidly increase until by the middle of April the entire time 

 of three or more men is generally needed. These shipments 

 continue until about the first of June, falling oif somewhat in 

 number toward the end of this period. About the first of Alay, 

 however, inspection for the blister rust on white pines must 

 begin, as the presence of this disease first becomes evident by 

 the formation of fruiting bodies on the outside of the trunk 

 at this time. Inspection for this disease can successfully be 

 continued until about the first of July, at which time all cer- 

 tificates expire, and those places making continuous sales of 

 nursery stock at all periods of the year require immediate 

 inspection in order that there may not be any interference with 

 their business. 



By the time these inspections have been completed, inspec- 

 tion of the growing stock in the other nurseries must be begun 

 if this work is to be completed before the fall shipping season 

 begins, and the full force of inspectors is therefore busy on 

 this work until near the middle of September. By this time 

 imports have again begun to come in, and these are received 

 in rapidly increasing quantities through September, October 

 and November, but decrease thereafter to practically none by 

 the latter part of December. 



