LAWS—HORTICULTURAL 
checks will not be accepted.) Duplicate 
of certificate of nursery inspection must 
be filed with the state entomologist, who 
will furnish tags at cost, and one tag must 
be attached to each package of stock to 
be sold in the state. W. J. Price, Acting 
State Entomologist, Blacksburg, Va. 
Washington 
No person, firm or corporation shall 
engage or continue in the business of 
selling as agent, solicitor or otherwise 
within the state or importing nursery 
stock without first having obtained a 
license. Nursery license fee is $5 per 
year; nursery agent’s license fee is $1 
per year; nursery bond is $1,000, to be re- 
newed annually. Every person, firm or 
corporation licensed to do business in 
this state must notify the Commissioner 
of Agriculture of his intention to ship 
nursery stock, giving the names and ad- 
dresses of the persons, firms or corpora- 
tions to whom the shipments are made. 
A copy of the notice shall also be sent 
the inspector of the district in which the 
point of destination is located. For full 
information address F. A. Huntley, Com- 
missioner Horticulture, Olympia, Wash. 
West Virginia 
The State Crop Pest Commission has 
power to provide quarantine regulations 
concerning the transportation and sale of 
nursery stock. No person or corporation, 
either for himself or as agent for an- 
other, shall offer for sale, sell or deliver 
nursery stock unless he shall have first 
procured from the state auditor a cer- 
tificate of registration, the annual fee for 
which is $5. All nursery stock entering 
the state must be accompanied by a cer- 
tificate of inspection and also by an of- 
ficial permit tag obtained from the state 
entomologist. Duplicate certificates of 
inspection should be filed. W. EH. Rum- 
sey, State Entomologist, Morgantown, W. 
Va. 
Wisconsin 
All persons, firms or corporations ship- 
ping nursery stock into the state are re- 
quired to file a duplicate certificate of in- 
spection, and secure a state license at the 
cost of $5, if selling at retail or through 
agents. Each shipment must bear certif- 
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icate tags which shall be attached to each 
package, box or carload lot. Transporta- 
tion companies are forbidden to deliver 
nursery stock unless accompanied by 
valid certificate tags. All agents selling 
nursery stock within the state must be 
supplied with an agent’s duplicate license 
at the cost of $1, which shall bear 
the same number and date as that of 
the principal. Wilful misrepresentation 
of quality or variety of stock offered for 
sale shall constitute a punishable mis- 
demeanor. Professor J. G. Sanders, En- 
tomologist and Chief Nursery Inspector, 
College of Agriculture, Madison, Wis. 
Wyoming 
Any person or firm wishing to do busi- 
ness in this state must first obtain a li- 
cense Licenses are issued on application 
for a period terminating on July 1 of the 
next succeeding inspection year (approx- 
imately two years). All applications 
must be accompanied by the license fee 
of $25, a bond in the sum of $500, con- 
ditioned that the principal will faithfully 
obey the law of the state, and by a cer- 
tified certificate of inspection from an 
authorized inspector in the state from 
which shipments are to be made. On re- 
ceipt of these the secretary of the state 
board issues authorized shipping tags at 
cost. Nursery stock may not enter the 
state and transportation companies may 
not deliver unless such tag be attached 
to each and every box, bundle or bale. 
Before making shipments secure copy of 
the law from the secretary of the State 
Board of Horticulture, Professor Aven 
Nelson, Laramie, Wyo. 
Canada 
No nursery stock shall be imported 
that is infested with any of the follow- 
ing insect pests or diseases: San Jose 
scale, brown-tail moth, gypsy moth, wool- 
ly aphis, West India peach scale, potato 
canker, gooseberry mildew, internal and 
external parasitic diseases of potato, 
branch canker and blister rust of white 
pine. Nursery stock shall be imported 
only through the ports and during the 
periods mentioned: 
Vancouver, B. C., from October 1 to 
May 1; Niagara Falls, Ont., from October 
