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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
nursery had been made during that time, 
namely, in July, 1912, or about six months 
after the seedlings infected with canker 
had been brought from Texas. If any 
canker spots were seen at that inspection 
they were passed by supposing them to be 
scab. But it is more probable that none 
were seen as the inspection was not row 
by row but block by block, according to 
the time available, so that any small in¬ 
fections present could readily be passed 
over. The general practice in inspecting 
has been to give as much time as was 
available, which for the larger nurseries 
was about one day, seldom more. The 
general practice, furthermore, was to walk 
around a block between the outer rows 
and then several times through the block. 
That was not efficient inspection but all 
that could be given. Sufficient perhaps 
under ordinary circumstances, but not 
sufficient to assure finding any new in¬ 
fections until such infections had become 
widespread in the block. And that is 
just what happened; the infection was 
discovered at the next inspection, a year 
later, when it had become wide spread. 
But during that time approximately 500 
sales and shipments of stock, not all from 
the Silver Paint Nursery, but in conjunc¬ 
tion with stock from other nurseries, be¬ 
longing to the owner in Dade county, 
were made. 
The remedy against such a condition 
recurring in the future, consists, on the 
one hand, in prohibiting importations 
from without, which has been done, and 
very carefully inspecting and watching 
all importations that are permitted; on the 
other hand, in providing a sufficient in¬ 
spection system so that eveiry row of 
stock in the nursery can be inspected and 
every tree seen by the inspectors three or 
four times yearly, and then a sufficient law 
providing for the eradication of all dan¬ 
gerous and new diseases found. 
A SYSTEM OF INSPECTION 
I have tentatively outlined a force of 
inspectors and employees that I wish to 
present for your consideration: 
One Chief Inspector; 1 Chief Assistant 
Inspector; 6 or more Assistant Inspect¬ 
ors;* 6 or more Port Inspectors; 2 or 
more Grove, Orchard or Field Inspect¬ 
ors;! 2 or more Railroad Inspectors, to 
look after shipments of nursery stock com¬ 
ing to Florida on the railroads; 1 Consult¬ 
ing Entomologist; 1 Consulting Patholo¬ 
gist. 
*Based on actual time required by Inspector to 
make 100 inspections. It is planned to inspect each 
nursery four times per year. There will prob¬ 
ably not be less than 200 inspections to make 
from now on. Since July, 1914, over 200 inspec¬ 
tions have been made. 
tThese may serve as Nursery Inspectors, when 
needed, or vice versa, and should start crop pest 
survey of state. 
