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INJURIOUS INSECTS AND FUNGI. 



[March 1895. 



the agent of the Horticultural Board hi the district, the fact 

 that such orchard, garden, or nursery is so infested. 



All dealers, nurserymen, or persons irnporting, selling, or dis- 

 tributing nursery stock, trees, or plants, for which no clean 

 certificate is in force, must, before distributing or offering for 

 sale any article above mentioned, acquaint the member of the 

 Board, his agent or representative in whose district any such 

 article is found, or the secretary of the Board, or the inspector 

 of fruit pests, who shall inspect or cause to be inspected such 

 nursery stock, trees, or plants, and if they are found to be free 

 from pests shall issue a cej tilicate to the owner or person in 

 charge, stating that the said articles appear to be free from 

 pests. Such certificate shall be in force for three months from 

 the date of issue, unless revoked by further inspection. 

 . Ail pe]."Sons owning or having in their possession nursery 

 stock, trees or plants of any kind, infested with insect pests 

 or fungous disease, must cause the same to be disinfected and 

 cleansed by using the remedies prescribed in the regulations, or 

 such other insecticides and fungicides as may be found effective, 

 and are approved by a member of the Board or the inspector 

 of fruit pests, and no such infested nursery stock, trees, or 

 plants must be sold, forwarded, distributed, or parted with until 

 a certifi-cate of the satisfactory cleansing thereof shall have been 

 obtained from a member of the Board, or his agent, or the 

 inspector of fruit pests. 



All importers of fruit must give notice to a member of the 

 Board of Horticulture, or his agent, or the Inspector of Fruit 

 Pests, upon the arrival of any shipment of fruit ; r.nd all 

 fruit or fruit packages imported into the province are to be 

 inspected, and if found to be free from insect pests and fungous 

 disease a clean certificate shall be issued in conformity with 

 the rules and recrulations of the Provincial Board of Hor- 

 ticulture ; provided, however, that no fruit or fruit packages, 

 imported into the province are to be removed from any dock, 

 wharf, mole, or station where such fruit and fruit packages have 

 been landed before inspection and such clean certificate thereof 

 shall have been obtained, and all such fruit and fruit packages 

 as maj/ be found infested with any insect pest or fungous 

 disease are either to be destroyed by the importers thereuf by 

 such process as any member of the Board, the Inspector of Fruit 

 Pests, or any agent appointed by the Board may direct, or shall 

 be re -shipped by the importers thereof to the country from 

 whence such infested fruit was exported. 



All fruit, whether imported or grown in the province, or 

 exposed for sale, is subject to inspection under the authority of 

 the Horticultural Board, and if found to be infected with any 

 injurious pest or the larva thereof, it may be quarantined or 

 destroyed at the expense of the owner of said fruit by such 

 methods as the Board or its agents may direct. 



All persons shipping, sending, or delivering any fruit, fruit 

 trees, scions, cuttings, or plants within the province, must place 



