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sufficient to induce the owner to order out the infested orchard. A 

 large proportion of the trees came from Dansville, N. Y., and were 

 peach trees probably not grown by the nurseryman who sold them. 

 This gentleman held a certificate, and on being notified of the condition 

 of affairs has evinced a considerable amount of fear lest his name 

 should be mentioned in this connection. A number of apple and pear 

 trees on the same farm also proved to be scaly, and these came from 

 Long Island, from a nursery known to be infested by the insect. 



In Warren County, N. J., I have found three points in which the 

 scale is, or rather was present, and most of the stock there came from 

 Alabama. The nursery from which this stock was sent out also has a 

 certificate, and I presume the stock that is sent out at the present time 

 is at least as good as that received by us in New Jersey. 



I have found several other cases in other localities where the scale is 

 traceable, without any doubt, to other than New Jersey nurseries, and 

 two of these cases are among the worst we have. Here the infestation 

 came on Duchess pears from Geneva and Eochester. 



I do not have to tell most of the members of this association one of 

 the secrets of the nursery business, for those certainly, who have had 

 to do with inspecting nurseries, know about it tolerably well. You 

 know that almost every nurseryman has a specialty which he has 

 learned to grow to the best advantage or for which his land is peculi- 

 arly adapted, and that he buys almost everything else; he may have 

 200 or 300 acres in nursery stock, and it may be chiefly one particular 

 kind of fruit, though in his catalogue hundreds of varieties are listed. 

 In New Jersey we grow peaches — I was going to say for the world, but 

 certainly for a large part of the United States. Our annual crop of 

 these nursery trees runs far above the million, and many of them are 

 sold as home-grown stock by dealers in other States. I have reason to 

 believe that some of the trees that went out of the State with my cer- 

 tificate came back into it with one bearing quite another name. One 

 nursery alone in Mercer County had one and one-half millions of trees 

 in 1897, of which either one-half or three-fourths of a million became 

 available that season, the number each year depending somewhat upon 

 the fluctuations of trade. We raise, of course, in our State a large 

 number of other fruit trees, but in a general way it may be said that 

 most of our apple and pear trees (Kieffers excepted) come from the 

 North. Most of our Kieffers come from the South and nearly all our 

 plums come from that region. Almost all the plum trees of recent 

 setting that have been found to be infested in New Jersey have been 

 grown in Southern States, though they may have been sold by New 

 Jersey nurserymen. 



During the past year there have been received in New Jersey under 

 certificate scaly trees from Florida, Alabama, Maryland, New York, 

 and Pennsylvania. 



It is not intended to make it a reproach to the gentleman who signed 

 these certificates that this was the case, for I am perfectly well aware 



