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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
any injurious insects or plant diseases he shall cause it to be destroyed or 
returned to the consignor. Agents or other parties, excepting growers, 
w'ho sell or deal in nursery stock, or solicit purchases of nursery stock, 
shall make application for an agent’s license and shall file with the State 
Horticulturist name and location of nursery and place of business of the 
nurserymen or tree dealers whom they represent or from whom they 
purchase their stock. Such application shall be accompanied by a fee 
of $5. A. K. Gardner, State Horticulturist, Augusta, Maine. 
.M.\ryl.a.nd. —Nurseries are inspected at least once in six months. 
All nurser}^ stock subject to attack of insect pests must be fumigated. 
Shipments into the State must be labeled with the name of consignor 
and consignee and each package bear a certificate of inspection. Dupli¬ 
cate certificates should be filed with the State Entomologist. Dr. T. B. 
Symons, State Entomologist, Prof. J. B. S. Norton, State Pathologist, 
College Park, Md. 
statement of contents and a certificate showing that the contents have 
been inspected by a State or Government officer, and if of species subject 
to the attack of San Jose scale must be fumigated with hydrocyanic acid 
gas. Certificates of fumigation must also be attached, together with a 
certificate of inspection. This applies to individiral orders when several 
are contained in the same shipment. All nurserymen, whether residents 
of Michigan or other States, who wish to grow or sell stock within the 
State must apply to the State inspector of nurseries on or before August 
I of each year for a license, for which the fee is $5.00. A bond for $i,oDo 
must also be filed. Certificates of inspection must be filed with the 
State inspector of nurseries before any stock is shipped into the 
State. Prof. L. R. Taft, State Inspector of Nurseries, East Lansing, 
Mich. 
Minnesota. —Inspection, annual compulsory. Inspection may be 
oftener if it seems desirable. 
PART OF BLOCK OF NORWAY MAPLES 7 TO 8 FEET. 1 AND IX INCH CALIPER SIZES. AT MAPLE FARM OF 
UNION NURSERIES. OUDENBOSCH, HOLLAND 
Massachusetts. —Nurseries in the State are inspected annually. 
Agents or other persons, excepting growers who desire to sell nursery 
stock in the State, shall make application to and receive from the State 
Nursery Inspector an agent’s license, and shall file with the State Nur¬ 
sery Inspector names and addresses of all persons or nurseries from 
whom they purchase stock. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm 
or corporation to sell, deliver or ship within the State any nursery stock 
unless such person, firm or corporation holds a grower’s certificate or an 
agent’s license, and a copy of such certificate or license must accompany 
each car, box or package delivered or shipped. 
The State Nursery Inspector shall have power to inspect at its point 
of destination all nursery stock coming into the State, and should such 
stock be found to be infested with injurious insects or plant diseases he 
may cause it to be destroyed, or treated or returned to the consignor at 
the consignor’s expense. Dr. H. T. Fernald, State Nursery Inspector, 
Amherst, Mass. 
Michigan. —Nurseries are subject to inspection; infested trees 
must be destroyed and the remainder of the stock within a half mile 
must be fumigated. Shipments into the State must bear on every 
package, plainly labeled, the name of the consignor and consignee, 
Sliipments into the State must be accompanied by a certificate of 
inspection. 
Carrying companies accepting stock not so tagged are responsible 
and liable to prosecution. 
Dealers in other States sending stock into Minnesota for 
sale must file a copy of their certificates with the State Entomolo¬ 
gist. Professor F. S. Washburn, State Entomologist, St. Anthony 
Park, Minn. 
Mississippi. —Every nursery in the State must be inspected before 
November i of each year, and every bundle, bale or package of stock 
sold or transported must be accompanied by a copy of the certificate <^f 
inspection attached in a conspicuous place. Every person or firm from 
other States wishing to ship nursery stock into Mississippi must file with 
the entomologist a copy of their certificate which shall state that the 
nursery is properly equipped for fumigating all nursery stock. A copy 
of the certificate shall be attached to every bundle, bale or package of 
nursery stock delivered within the State. Every nurseryman must 
state that all nursery stock shipped into this State will be fumigated 
with hydrocyanic acid gas. R. W. Harned, Entomologist, Agricultural 
College, Miss, 
