﻿Forest, 
  Fish 
  and 
  Game 
  Commission 
  63 
  

  

  sisting 
  of 
  German 
  white 
  pine, 
  developed 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  Lake 
  

   Clear 
  trees 
  are 
  affected 
  with 
  the 
  blister 
  rust. 
  This 
  fact 
  was 
  ascer- 
  

   tained 
  by 
  discovering 
  intervening 
  stages 
  of 
  the 
  disease 
  together 
  

   with 
  swellings 
  containing 
  immature 
  forms 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  

   recognize, 
  thereby 
  enabling 
  him 
  to 
  connect 
  the 
  various 
  stages 
  of 
  

   the 
  disease. 
  There 
  are 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  acres 
  of 
  white 
  pine 
  in 
  this 
  plan- 
  

   tation 
  and 
  all 
  should 
  be 
  destroyed 
  before 
  spring 
  when 
  the 
  spores 
  

   mature. 
  

  

  The 
  fact 
  that 
  this 
  disease 
  has 
  been 
  imported 
  into 
  this 
  and 
  other 
  

   vState? 
  is 
  regrettable, 
  but 
  through 
  the 
  excellent 
  assistance 
  of 
  the 
  

   State 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  we 
  hope 
  and 
  believe 
  that 
  it 
  can 
  

   be 
  prevented 
  from 
  becoming 
  established 
  in 
  this 
  State. 
  It 
  was 
  im- 
  

   ported 
  with 
  the 
  foreign 
  seedlings 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  purchased 
  at 
  a 
  

   time 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  impossible 
  to 
  secure 
  white 
  pine 
  seedlings 
  in 
  

   quantity 
  in 
  this 
  country, 
  except 
  at 
  a 
  prohibitive 
  price. 
  This 
  and 
  

   other 
  diseases 
  of 
  a 
  similar 
  nature 
  were 
  then 
  almost 
  unknown 
  in 
  

   this 
  country 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  trees 
  were 
  imported. 
  New 
  York 
  was 
  

   the 
  first 
  to 
  discover 
  its 
  presence 
  and 
  has 
  taken 
  the 
  most 
  aggressive 
  

   means 
  to 
  check 
  it. 
  

  

  A 
  similar 
  situation 
  exists 
  now 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  stock 
  in 
  the 
  

   Salamanca 
  Nursery 
  as 
  occurred 
  at 
  the 
  Lake 
  Clear 
  Nursery 
  last 
  

   spring. 
  There 
  are 
  in 
  this 
  nursery 
  615,000 
  four-year-old 
  white 
  

   pine 
  transplants 
  which 
  were 
  imported 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1909 
  when 
  

   the 
  disease 
  was 
  discovered. 
  At 
  least 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  them 
  are 
  known 
  

   to 
  be 
  affected 
  with 
  this 
  disease 
  and 
  they 
  should 
  all 
  be 
  burned. 
  

   Fortunately 
  the 
  disease 
  was 
  discovered 
  before 
  the 
  account 
  from 
  

   the 
  German 
  Nurseryman 
  was 
  audited 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  never 
  been 
  paid. 
  

  

  The 
  several 
  plantations 
  throughout 
  the 
  State, 
  where 
  any 
  German 
  

   white 
  pines 
  have 
  been 
  planted, 
  were 
  all 
  carefully 
  inspected 
  either 
  

   by 
  this 
  Department 
  or 
  the 
  State 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  May. 
  There 
  were 
  found 
  484 
  pines 
  with 
  spore 
  

   bodies; 
  1,174 
  trees 
  with 
  abnormal 
  swellings 
  and 
  6,151 
  ribes 
  plants 
  

   all 
  of 
  which- 
  were 
  destroyed. 
  A 
  problem 
  is 
  presented 
  in 
  regard 
  

   to 
  these 
  plantations 
  on 
  private 
  lands 
  made 
  with 
  these 
  German 
  

   pines 
  that 
  must 
  be 
  seriously 
  considered 
  promptly. 
  

  

  