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NURSERY INSPECTION. 
INSPECTION IN 1914. 
The winter of 1913-14 was rather hard on nursery stock, but 
our inspectors state that on the whole the stock looks very well 
this season, some nurseries getting- wonderful growth on certain 
trees. 
Commenting on the copious rainfall last spring, Mr. Peake in 
his report states: “The month of June was so wet that clean 
culture was about impossible, the result of which was that a 
very bad crop of weeds and much hard work was required for the 
nurserymen to keep their fields clean. In one or two instances 
the weeds were so dense as to make thorough inspection almost 
impossible. 
The Inspection Service feels that the nurserymen have done all 
in their power, with the possible exception of one or two cases, to 
help the Inspectors in their work, and especially when a pest was 
discovered, have been quick to co-operate for its eradication.” 
In connection with the occurrence of scales in some of the 
nurseries, several kinds of scale insects were found in the various 
localities and San Jose scale in one particular locality. At this 
latter place measures were at once taken to stamp out the scale 
while it was still under comparatively easy control. 
The stock coming from this nursery will be as safe to buy as 
any, for there will be no possibility of live scales being sent from 
there. Not only has the place been carefully inspected and all 
infected stock taken care of, but all stock leaving the premises 
is treated so as to destroy any scales which might slip past the 
inspectors. 
The following insect pests and plant diseases were reported 
by Mr. Peake upon nursery stock during 1914: Willow aphis, leaf 
roller on strawberry, snow ball aphis, leaf aphis, soft scales, leaf 
miners, leaf rollers on box elders, apple aphis, poplar beetles on 
poplar and willows, cherry slug, plum aphis, woolly aphis on apple, 
poplar scale, oyster shell on apple, scales on roses, Buffalontree 
hopper, snowy tree cricket, apple leaf hopper, lilac borer, tent 
caterpillar, canker worms and others. Also leaf spot on currant, 
mildew on same; shot hole fungus, especially on young plum; leaf 
spot on basswood, fire blight on mountain and apple ash ; crown 
gall, black knot, fire blight canker on apple trees, black rust on 
barberry; plum pocket; anthracnose on blackberry, raspberry, etc. 
