FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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shipment of stock sent out from Dade 
county, or received from other states, the 
Florida Growers and Shippers League, 
under whose auspices the money raised 
was to be spent, placed eight additional 
inspectors in the field. This was in ad¬ 
dition to Mr. Stirling whom the League 
had employed since the middle of last 
May. The additional inspectors, like Mr. 
Stirling, were also appointed Deputy In¬ 
spectors of Nursery Stock in order to 
give them a legal status in the nurseries. 
This arrangement was, furthermore, 
fortunate as it permitted the Inspector to 
use their reports on nurseries for issuing 
certificates, and besides, by consent of the 
League to use them in making inspections 
of nurseries in the territory to which they 
were assigned, because the Inspector 
would have found it impossible to have 
made any but a few of the 200 and more 
inspections himself. 
These eight additional inspectors are 
F. M. O’Byrne, A. M. Henry, Edgar Nel¬ 
son, I. F. Hunter, L. A. Daniel, J. A. Mil¬ 
ler, D. M. Badger, and Virgil Clark. 
It may, furthermore, be explained here 
that, under the circumstances, the single 
Inspector provided by the Nursery In¬ 
spection Law of 1911 has become wholly 
inadequate to meet the demand for inspec¬ 
tion. In 1911-1912, 70 nurseries were 
inspected; in 1912-1913, 102; in 1913- 
1914, 142; and in 1914-1915 the number 
has increased to over 200. 
Several lists of sales and shipments 
made from nurseries one or two years 
prior to the discovery of canker in them, 
were obtained from the nurserymen, and 
these lists were used by the inspectors. 
One extensive list representing just about 
500 sales and shipments furnished by a 
leading nurseryman of Dade county be¬ 
came the principal factor in arousing the 
growers of the state at large to action. 
While the figures of this list appeared 
very formidable, a careful analysis of the 
list brings out the fact that the distribu¬ 
tion of the shipments was not correspond¬ 
ingly. state wide, but wide enough to war- 
ran the apprehension that was aroused. 
Herewith follows a summary of the list 
in question : 
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Total No. of sales and 
shipments, trees and 
budwood per list, about — - 500 169,290 
Number into Dade county 252 28,495 
Number into other East 
Coast counties _143 8,124 
No. into state at large, 
not including East 
Coast, and not includ¬ 
ing seedlings and buds 
to branch nurseries_ 69 26,148 
Seedlings to branch_ 17 88,521 
3000 buds and some trees 
to main nursery_ 4 4,810 
Out of state into other 
states . 7 10,106 
Out of mainland of U. S. 8 30,86 
500 169,290 500 169,290 
This analysis shows that only about 69 
shipments, but representing over 26,000 
trees and buds, were sent into the state at 
large, the greater bulk having gone into 
Dade county and the other lower East 
Coast counties. 
I should add that the parties outside 
of the United States receiving the eight 
shipments listed were notified either di¬ 
rectly through this office or through the 
