No. 4.] 



STATE NURSERY INSPECTOR. 



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ticiilarly important if we are to escape adding others to the 

 already too long list of enemies of our crops and other plants. 

 During the year 1914, 724 shipments of imported nursery 

 stock, comprising 5,229 cases, were received in the State and 

 inspected, the source and number of these being indicated by 

 the following list. How many separate plants were inspected 

 it would be impossible to say, as a case may contain anywhere 

 from one to ten thousand or more, according to their size and 

 the size of the case. 



Imported Nursery Stock, 1914- 



COUNTRT. 



Number of 

 Shipments. 



Number of 

 Cases. 



Holland, 



Belgium, 



England, 



France, 



Scotland, 



Italy 



Ireland, 

 Germany, . 

 Japan, 

 Brazil, 

 Columbia, . 

 Nova Scotia, 

 Denmark, . 



Cuba 



Azores, 

 Venezuela, . 

 Jamaica, 

 Austria, 

 Bermuda, . 

 Costa Rica, 

 Prince Edward Island, 

 Trinidad, . 

 Total, . 



250 

 207 

 95 

 55 

 30 

 19 

 17 

 17 

 11 

 4 

 » 

 3 

 2 



2,212 



1,962 



315 



224 



35 



19 



38 



23 



20 



53 



15 



3 



22 



275 



2 



4 

 2 



724 



As the year 1914 was not quite ended when these figures were 



prepared, the final numbers will probably be slightly greater. 



All insects and diseases found, if not recognized by the in- 



