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the owner of any nursery stock, fruit trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery, or horti¬ 
cultural plants situated upon premises leased 
or occupied by him or the owner of any nur¬ 
sery stock, fruit trees, shade trees, plants situ¬ 
ated or being at any place within the State of 
Florida, for the sale or delivery to any person, 
firm, or corporation, to take, adopt, and use 
all methods and means provided by law, or 
prescribed by the State Commissioner of Hor¬ 
ticulture for the prevention of pests or dis¬ 
eases to which such nursery stock, fruit trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery or horti¬ 
cultural plants may be subject, and keep the 
same in a healthy condition, and free from 
diseases and pests, and in the event it is 
found that such nursery stock, fruit trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery, or horti¬ 
cultural plants at any time are infected with 
any disease or pests to which the same may 
be subject, to promptly take and use such 
methods as may be prescribed by law or the 
State Commissioner of Horticulture to dis¬ 
infect the same, and in event such nursery 
stock, fruit trees, ornamental shrubbery and 
horticultural plants cannot be disinfected, to 
promptly destroy the same. 
Section 24. The diseases of and' pests in¬ 
jurious to nursery stock, fruit trees, shade 
trees, ornamental shrubbery and horticultural 
plants to be guarded against and treated and 
disinfected for, as in the next preceding sec¬ 
tion provided, shall include any and all such 
diseases or pests as the State Commissioner 
of Horticulture shall specify and describe in 
the bulletins to be issued by him as injurious 
to the fruit and horticultural interests of the 
State. 
Section 25. The State Commissioner of 
Horticulture shall prescribe the remedy for 
and means for the disinfection of fruit trees, 
horticultural plants, fruits and horticultural 
products, and shall make such rules and regu¬ 
lations relative thereto as he shall deem 
proper, which prescription and rules and regu¬ 
lations shall be promulgated by him by means 
of bulletins to nurserymen, fruit tree dealers, 
and their solicitors and salesmen, and to horti¬ 
culturists of the State of Florida, through 
the district horticultural inspectors herein pro¬ 
vided for, and any person interested shall be 
entitled to receive a copy of all such prescrip¬ 
tions and rules and regulations at any time, 
upon application for the same. 
Section 26. For the purpose of ascertain¬ 
ing whether any nursery stock, fruit trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery, or other 
horticultural plants, are infected with any dis¬ 
ease or pests to which the same may be sub¬ 
ject, the district horticultural inspectors, 
within their respective districts, shall be au¬ 
thorized to enter upon any premises at any 
time for the purpose of inspecting and ex¬ 
amining any nursery stock, fruit trees, or hor¬ 
ticultural plants growing or stored thereon, 
or being situate thereon. 
^Section 27. Said district horticultural in¬ 
spectors shall also have the power, within 
their respective districts, and at any time, to 
enter upon any premises where fruit or hor¬ 
ticultural products are stored, or are being 
prepared or packed for shipment, or offered 
for sale, or are held for the purpose of deliver¬ 
ing upon any shipment or sale thereof, for 
the purpose of inspecting said premise, and 
such fruit or products, to ascertain whether 
the same, or any part thereof, is infected with 
any of the diseases or pests declared injurious 
by the State Commissioner of Horticulture. 
Section 28. If, after inspection, as provided 
in sections 26 and 27 hereof, the district hor¬ 
ticultural inspector shall ascertain that any 
nursery stock, fruit trees, shade trees, orna¬ 
mental shrubbery or horticultural plants, or 
any fruit or horticultural products, or any 
place where such fruit or horticultural product 
is kept for sale, or is being prepared for ship¬ 
ment, or is stored, is infected with any dis¬ 
eases or pests declared by the State Commis¬ 
sioner of Horticulture to be injurious to the 
horticultural industries of the State, said dis¬ 
trict horticultural inspector shall notify the 
owner, or person having possession or charge 
of such nursery stock, fruit trees, shade trees, 
ornamental shrubbery, horticultural plants, 
fruit, horticultural products, or places of stor¬ 
age, sale, or preparation for market, in writ¬ 
ing, requiring the disinfection of any or all 
thereof which is capable of disinfection, and 
the destruction of such as is incapable of 
proper disinfection, subject to the provisions 
hereof, relative to the sale, disposition and 
use of infected fruit, and shall fix the time 
in said notice within which the same shall be 
