158 LAWS AGAINST INJUEIOUS INSECTS. 



communicable character that wherever discovered in orchards in this State 

 they shall be destroyed or treated within a reasonable time in accordance with 

 the directions of the State entomologist, assistants, or local inspectors, acting 

 under orders of this board. 



5. Infested nursery premises — how dealt icitli. Any nursery premises within 

 this State which shall upon inspection prove to be infested with any one or 

 more of the insect pests or plant diseases specified in section 2, shall not be 

 entitled to a certificate of freedom from disease and insect pests until they shall 

 have satisfactorily carried out the directions of the State entomologist or an 

 assistant acting under orders of this board. 



Every person, persons, firm, or corporation doing business in this State as 

 growers or handlers of nursery stock are hereby notified that they must not 

 sell, transport, or give away the same unless accompanied by a certificate of 

 inspection from the State entomologist, or an assistant acting under the orders 

 of this board, declaring the same to be apparently free from San Jose scale 

 and other dangerously injurious insect pests and plant diseases. 



6. On the certification of nursenj stock from other States. All nursery stock 

 entering this State from without must be accompanied by a certificate of inspec- 

 tion, satisfactory to the State entomologist, both as to form and the authority- 

 of the person making the same, which certificate shall certify substantially as 

 above required in case of State nurseries. As a guide to transportation com- 

 panies, as to whether a certificate is valid or not under this law, the State ento- 

 mologist shall furnish to all nurserymen in other States doing business in this 

 State, official tags upon request, if the certificate of inspection of the party or 

 parties applying for the same is found to be correct and in proper form, and the 

 said parties shall have procured the State certificate of registration as required 

 in section 12 of the act of assembly. These tags shall be charged for at c-ost. 



7. Regulating the transportation of nursery stock. All transportation com- 

 panies doing business in this State, both by land and water routes, are hereby 

 notified that on and after September 1st, 1903, they must not, under penalty 

 prescribed in section 3 of above act, transport plants, commonly known as nur- 

 sery stock, within the bounds of this State, to be delivered at any point therein, 

 except the same are accompanied by, and have plainly attached thereto, a cer- 

 tificate as provided for in section 8 of these rules, and in case of nursery stock 

 entering this State from without for delivery in the State, such nursery stock 

 must carry in addition to the official certificate of the State whence the ship- 

 ment originated, the official tag of the State entomologist of Virginia, as speci- 

 fied in section 6 above. 



8. The inspection and certification of nurseries. It shall be the duty of the 

 State entomologist, or an assistant appointed by this board, to inspect all nur- 

 sery premises in this State at least once each year, and issue to each a certifi- 

 cate in proper form if found entitled to the same. On the discovery of any 

 infested nursery, the State entomologist shall pursue such methods as are nec- 

 essary to eradicate the injurious insects and plant diseases specified in section 2 

 of these rules and regulations, and when accomplished a certificate shall be 

 issued in due form. Certificates of nursery inspection shall in all cases be 

 signed by the State entomologist, or by an assistant authorized by the board of 

 crop pest commissioners. The State entomologist is hereby authorized to grant 

 special certificates to dealers in nursery plants, upon satisfactory evidence that 

 they are handling only properly inspected stock. 



9. Resale hy nurserymen of certified stock. All nursery stock purchased out- 

 side the State and brought into this State for resale by a duly authorized nur- 

 seryman may be sold under the official certificate of the State entomologist, or 



