LAWS-—HORTICULTURAL 
(b) To enforce all laws relating to 
horticulture and horticultural interests; 
(c) Provide for the dissemination of 
information to horticulturists upon sub- 
jects pertaining to their interests and co- 
operate with district horticultural in- 
spectors in arranging for meetings, lec- 
tures and institutes and the instruction 
of horticulturists; 
(d) Publish and distribute bulletins 
and reports embodying information upon 
horticultural subjects, the pests affect- 
ing and the diseases of horticultural 
plants and fruits, to horticulturists, hor- 
ticultural societies, and others, as he 
shall deem proper; 
(e) Arrange for holding, fix the date 
of and preside over the district horticul- 
tural inspectors’ institute to be held as 
herein provided; 
(f) Hxamine, upon request, specimens 
of fruit, fruit trees, nursery stock and 
other horticultural plants or products 
submitted to him, and report to the ap- 
plicant the result of such examination; 
(g) Appoint district horticultural in- 
spectors and prescribe rules and regula- 
tions tor the (their) guidance and in- 
struct, advise, direct and supervise them 
in all matters pertaining to their duties; 
(h) Hear and decide appeals from the 
orders and decisions of district horticul- 
tural inspectors; 
(i) Grant licenses to nurserymen, 
tree dealers and their solicitors, agents 
and salesmen, and suspend or revoke such 
licenses as herein provided; 
(j) Furnish to state inspectors lists 
of licensed nurserymen and tree dealers 
doing business in the state, and of agents 
and salesmen of nursery stock in his and 
adjoining districts; 
(k) Approve the bonds of state horti- 
cultural inspectors and of nurserymen 
and tree dealers as herein provided; and, 
(1) Perform such other duties as may 
be prescribed by law. (Sec. 3075., R. & 
B.) 
Duties of District Inspectors 
Section 129. District horticultural in- 
spectors shall have power and it shall be 
their duty: 
(a) To enforce the provisions of all 
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laws relating to horticulture, within 
their respective districts; 
(b) To arrange for and hold institutes 
and meetings of horticulturists for the 
discussion of horticultural subjects and 
the dissemination of information as to 
horticultural questions, and for the dem- 
onstration of methods of preventing the 
diseases of or pests injurious to horticul- 
tural plants and fruits, and of curing 
and removing the same; 
(c) To inspect orchards, nurseries, 
nursery stock, fruit, horticultural prod- 
ucts, supplies, packing houses, ware- 
houses and other places where fruit is 
packed, stored or shipped; also vines, 
ornamental shrubs and bushes, as well as 
other trees and property, for the purpose 
of ascertaining whether the same are in- 
fected with any disease or pests injuri- 
ous to fruit trees or fruit, and of tak- 
ing steps to disinfect the same and pre- 
vent the spread thereof; and, for that 
purpose, shall have free access to or- 
chards, nurseries, packing houses, stor- 
age houses and any other place at all 
times; 
(d) To require the disinfection of all 
trees, ornamental shrubbery, orchards, 
nurseries or nursery stock, fruit packing 
houses or other places infected with any 
pests, fungi or disease injurious to the 
horticultural industry of the state of 
Washington; 
(e)) Inspect and examine orchards, 
fruit, nursery stock and other horticul- 
tural plants and products at the request 
of the owner thereof for the existence of 
any disease or pest thereof, and report 
to the applicant the result of such in- 
vestigation and prescribe proper remedies 
therefor; 
(f) Prevent the shipping and sale of 
infected fruit, except for canning, pre- 
serving or jellying or the making of 
cider or manufacture of other by-products 
within the state of Washington, and un- 
der such rules and regulations as may be 
established by the State Commissioner 
of Horticulture, and the delivery, sale, 
planting and shipping of infected nurs- 
ery stock, trees, and other horticultural 
products and supplies, by notifying the 
owner thereof or the person having the 
