THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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/MEW GEORGIA RULES . 
Regulations In Case One or More Blocks Have San Jose Scale 
— Rules Applying to Nurserymen Who Ship 
Stock Into the State. 
At its annual meeting at Macon, Ga. ; January 26th, the 
Georgia Board of Entomology adopted regulations providing 
that no trees, shrubs or other plants commonly known as 
nursery stock shall be sold, delivered or given away within 
the state of Georgia without being plainly labelled with the 
certificate of the state entomologist and that application 
shall be made for inspection on or before July 1st, each year. 
Heretofore it has been necessary under the regulations for 
the Department to refuse certificates whenever a nursery, or 
any part of it, has been found infested with San Jose scale. 
Under the new regulation a nurseryman may secure a cer¬ 
tificate covering stock which is not infested and which is not 
in immediate danger of becoming infested, even though one 
or more blocks of his nursery may have scale in them. It 
must not be understood from this, however, that infested 
stock will be allowed upon the market, or that a certificate 
will be granted covering stock which is in dangerous prox¬ 
imity to San Jose scale. 
Regulations applying to nurserymen outside of Georgia 
who ship stock into that state are as follows: 
“ Any person or persons residing in states or countries out¬ 
side the state of Georgia, dealing in or handling trees, shrubs 
or other plants in this state, or shipping trees, shrubs or other 
plants therein, shall file with the state entomologist (Atlanta, 
Ga.) a certified copy (or signed duplicate of original) of the 
certificate issued by the entomologist, fruit inspector, or other 
duly authorized official of the state or country in which said 
stock was grown. Such certificate for nurseries south of the 
north boundary line of North Carolina, Tennessee and 
Arkansas must be based upon an inspection made not earlier 
than July 1st; and for nurseries north of said line, upon an 
inspection made not earlier than June 1st. Said person or 
persons shall also file with the state entomologist a signed 
statement in which said person or persons agree to fumigate 
with hydrocyanic acid gas all stock shipped into the state of 
Georgia. Such fumigation shall be in a manner approved by 
the state entomologist. Upon receipt and approval of the cer¬ 
tificate and statement above-mentioned, the certificate of the 
Georgia State Board of Entomology will be issued to the 
applicant without charge, and official tags bearing a fac simile 
copy of such certificate and the seal of the state board, will 
be furnished such applicant at cost of printing, viz: 60 
cents for the first one hundred or part thereof, and 25 cents 
for each additional hundred.” 
The officials of Georgia impose no fees upon nurserymen 
who desire to ship stock into the state, and wish to encourage 
all reliable nurserymen to handle nothing but strictly-first- 
class slock, free from injurious insects and diseases. To all 
such the State Board of Entomology offers every facility 
sor doing business in Georgia. However, nurserymen who 
fail to comply with the state laws and with the regulations 
of the board or who ship infested stock into the state will be 
rigorously dealt with. Wilmon Newell is the state entomolo¬ 
gist. 
MAY GET THE TREE FINALLY. 
Nurserymen will be interested in the following article from 
the Richmond “Times-Dispatoh:” 
A native Virginia tree will shortly, through (he courtesy of Governor 
Montague and ( ity Engineer \\ . E. Cutslmw, he planted on.the public 
square at Indianapolis, the gilt having been requested by the governor 
of the Hoosier state some time ago, though the end can only be reached 
by easy stages. 
Mr. Kelley, ot this city, yesterday offered a bill in the House to exempt 
city and town nurseries from the operations of the crop pest law, which 
requires the rigid inspection of all trees shipped out of the state, and 
behind it is an interesting little story. 
Not long ago the governor of Indiana requested Governor Montague 
to give him a certain kind of Virginia tree to plant on the Capitol 
grounds in Indianapolis. The tree was to have been secured from tin- 
city nursery, and Colonel Cutshaw was anxious to accommodate Gover¬ 
nor Montague, and the latter wanted to conform to the wishes of his 
Hoosier contemporary, but it was found that the state law prohibited 
the shipment of the tree without a great deal of expense and red tape. 
So, in order to have the thing legally and properly done, Mr. Kellev 
has offered his bill at the request of Colonel Cutshaw, and when it shall 
have passed, the t ree will be shipped. 
NEW TARIFF RULING. 
Under date ol February 9, 1904, the assistant secretary of 
the U. S. treasury writes to the appraiser in New York as 
follows: 
Referring to the Department’s letter addressed to you under date 
of July 13, 1901, wherein, owing to the alleged inability of importers of 
nursery stock, such as seeds and bulbs, to inform themselves as to the 
foreign market value at the time of shipment, and to the perishable 
nature of the goods and other exceptional circumstances attending 
such importations, you were authorized to supply importers with data 
relating to the different foreign market values of such merchandise, 
without, however, making any suggestions as to the value to be declared 
on entry, I will state that the Department is in receipt of information 
to the effect that there seems to be no good reason why importers should 
not be as familiar with the foreign market value of seeds, plants and 
bulbs as importers are with the values of other goods. 
It appears that frequently where merchandise of the character in 
question is raised under contract, the contract price is accepted as the 
foreign market value; that in a year when there is an abundant crop 
the contract price may represent the true foreign market value, but 
that should there be a partial failure in the crop, the contract price 
may not represent such value. 
In this connection it further appears that it has been the practice at 
one or more ports to average invoice values in order to arrive at the 
foreign market values of goods of the above description, which practice 
is disapproved. 
In view of the foregoing, it is hereby directed that the practice afore¬ 
said be discontinued. 
COLONIST RATES ON SALE DURING MARCH AND APRIL 
VIA WABASH RAILROAD. 
$42.50 
From Buffalo 
To San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, Tacoma, San Diego, Seattle; 
$40.00 
Spokane. Ellensburg, Wenatchee, Umatilla, Pendleton; 
$39.50 
Helena. Butte, Anaconda, Missoula, Ogden. Salt Lake City, Pocatello; 
$34.00 
Billings, Mont., and all intermediate points. 
For full information apply to your Local Ticket Agent, or 
R. F. Kelley, G. A. P. D. & 
James Gass, N. Y. S. P. A.. Wabash Railroad, 
287 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
A St. Louis World’sjFair Information Bureau has been estab¬ 
lished at 287 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y., in charge of R. F. Kelley, 
where information will be cheerfully furnished. 
