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Holland, France, and occasionally Belgium, than we have 

 ever received before. I think the inspections should be 

 continued, and some permanent provision made for pay- 

 ing the expenses. The probability is that the work of 

 inspection will continue to grow, and that the assistance 

 now available will not be sufficient to do the work as 

 promptly and carefully as is desirable. During the past 

 two months we have had frequent calls from florists for 

 inspection, sometimes several requesting an inspection 

 at the same time. With only one man available for this 

 work, it is sometimes difficult to accommodate everyone 

 as promptly as we could wish. On this account it seems 

 to me desirable that some amendment be made to our 

 present nursery inspection law, enacted in 1897, whereby 

 we can do this work under a single appropriation made 

 by the State. As you know, the present arrangement can 

 hardly be considered as more than temporary, and I wish 

 here to call attention to the importance of amending the 

 State law in the hope that something can be done at the 

 coming session of the Legislature to provide for these 

 and other inspections of nursery stock, needed in the 

 State. In brief, we should have both the inspections of 

 nurseries and orchards, and those of imported stock un- 

 der one law, fixing the responsibility for the work and 

 making a sufficient appropriation in funds to carry it 

 out properly. In other states this provision is already 

 made, with the entomologists of Experiment Stations 

 generally in charge, and sometimes, where the number of 

 nurseries is large, a staff of special assistants is pro- 

 vided. 



From time to time during 1914-1915, 1 have reported 

 to you on the examinations thus far made, but I have 

 thought it worth while to bring together below in one re- 

 port, the data secured from examinations of imported 

 stock in 1915, since it will furnish a basis for an estimate 

 as to the amount of work required in the future, and the 

 probable expense of doing it. I think these inspections 

 should remain at the Station, with other inspections, such 

 as those of fertilizers, feeds, foods and the like. The 

 total number of inspections made in 1915 to date was 87 ; 

 in January, 4 ; February, 4 ; March, 8 ; April, 5 ; May, 3 ; 

 October, 18; November, 44, and December, 1, with sev- 



