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tion of this pest from Louisiana nurseries, the Commission, at 

 its meeting March 15, 1905, adopted regulations requiring the 

 inspection of all Louisiana nurseries at least once a year, the 

 attaching of official certificates of inspection to all shipments 

 of nursery stock coming into the State and the attaching of the 

 Commission's certificate of inspection to all nursery stock sold 

 01 shipped by Louisiana nurseries. 



The Entomologist and his assistants, during the summer and 

 autumn, inspected all fruit tree nurseries known to exist within 

 the State, twenty-nine in all. Of these, twenty-eight have re- 

 ceived certificates allowing sale of the trees and plants grown 

 by them. In the case of thirteen of the twenty -seven nurseries, 

 inspection revealed the presence of San Jose scale either in a 

 portion of the nursery or upon the premises in such position as 

 to endanger the stock being grown for sale. In all cases but one, 

 the owners of these infested premises and nurseries immediately 

 followed the suggestions of the Entomologist for eradicating the 

 pest. The scale was successfully eliminated in the case of twelve 

 nurseries, the owner of the remaining one being too indifferent 

 t^ the interests of his customers to undertake the eradication of 

 the pest, and he was accordingly refused a certificate. 



The twenty-eight nurseries which received certificates, pro- 

 duced healthy, marketable trees and plants as follows: 



Peach 248,172 



Apple , 138,000 



Pecan 93,663 



Strawberry plants 50,000 



IVar 42,000 



Field-grown rose bushes *26,300 



Plum ' 16,619 



Orange 15,600 



( i rapes 8,000 



Forest and shade trees **5,911 



Fig 3,300 



Privet 1,000 



* Includes only tield-yrown rosebushes for sale as such, and does not in 

 elude roses fjrown in greenhouses or by florists. 



**Does not include catalpa trees propa.ua led or urown on catalpa plantations. 



