60 Vict. Provincial Board of Horticulture. 59 



PROVINCIAL BOARD OP HORTICULTURE. 



Rules and Reflations made and published under authority of Section 

 of the "Horticultural Board Act, 1894," and of the 

 amendments thereto. 



Title. 



1. These Regulations may be cited as the " Horticultural Eegulations." 



Definitions. 



2. In these Regulations the word " pests " shall mean and include woolly aphis, apple 

 tree aphis, scaly bark louse, oyster-shell bark louse, San Jose scale, red scale, borers, codlin 

 moths, currant worms, caterpillars, or other known injurious insects, and all fungous diseases. 

 The " Board " shall mean the Provincial Board of Horticulture. 



Notification of the Presence of Pests. 



3. All nurserymen, fruit-growers, and all persons owning, occupying or managing an 

 orchard, garden or nursery infected with any pest, shall notify the member of the Board for 

 the district in which such orchard, garden or nursery is located, or the Secretary or Inspector, 

 or the agent of the Board in the district, of the fact that such orchard, garden or nursery is so 



infected. 



Inspection of Nursery Stock. 



4 tUI importers of nursery stock, trees or plants must give notice to a member of the 

 Board, or his agent, or the Inspector of Fruit Pests, upon the arrival of any nursery stock, 

 trees or plants, before the removal of such nursery stock, trees, or plants from any dock, whart, 

 mole, station, or warehouse where such nursery stock, trees, or plants have been lanc^ed, and 

 if such nursery stock, trees or plants are found to be free of insect pests and fungous diseases, 

 the said member of the Board, his agent, or the Inspector of Fruit Pests, shall issue a certificate 

 to that effect; and all such nursery stock, trees or plants, if found to be infected with any 

 insect pest or fungous disease, shall be dealt with according to the Rules and Regulations ot 

 the Board. All dealers, nurserymen, or persons selling or distributing nursery stock, trees, or 

 plants for which no clean eertificate is in force shall, before distributing or offering for sale any 

 article above mentioned, notify the member of the Board, his agent or representative, in whose 

 district any such article is found, or the Secretary of the Board, or the Inspector of Fruit 

 Pests who shall inspect or cause to be inspected such nursery stock, trees, or plants, and it 

 they are found to be free from pests shall issue a certificate to the owner or person in charge, 

 stating that said articles appear to be free from pests. Such certificate shall be in force for 

 three months from date of issue, unless revoked by further inspection. 



Disinfection of Nursery Stock, Trees and Plants. 



5 All persons owning or having in their possession nursery stock, or trees and plants of 

 any kind, infected with inlect pests of fungous disease, shall cause the same to be disinfected 

 and cleansed bt using the remedies herein prescribed, or such other insecticides and fungicides 

 as may be fou/d effective, and are approved of by a member of the Board or the Inspector of 

 Fruit Pests, and no such infected nursery stock, trees, or plants shall be sold Mrwartie^. 

 distributed or parted with until a certificate of the satisfactory cleansing thereof shall have 

 been obtained from a member of the Board or his agent, or the Inspector of Fruit Pests. Any 

 member of the Board or the Inspector of Fruit Pests may order the destruction, by rooting 

 ^ut and burning, all infected nursery stock, trees, or plants of any kind, if, in the opinion o 

 such member of the Board or Inspector of Fruit Pests, such a course is considered expedient 

 in the interest of the fruit-growing industry. 



