Name of Firm Bradley, Smith T..... Brainard Nursery & Seed Co. Braley & Co.. Bretschneider, A.. Brooks Bros.. Burr & Co., C. R.. Burroughs, Thos. E. Chapman, C. B. Chapman, C. E. Conley, L. D..... NURSERY FIRMS IN CONNECTICUT RECEIVING CERTIFICATES IN 1917--Con. Conine Nursery Co., The F. E... Stratford.. Conn. Agricultural College (Prof. Conn. Agri. Experiment Station NURSERY FIRMS IN CONNECTICUT RECEIVING CERTIFICATES IN 1917--Con. New Haven Nurseries Co....... New Haven..... (G. X. Amrhyn, Supt.)....... New Haven..... 30 Nov. 12 883 New London Cemetery Associa tion (F. S. Newcomb, Pres.)... New London.... North-Eastern Forestry Co..... Cheshire. ... Norwich Nurseries (O. E. Ryther, INSPECTION OF IMPORTED NURSERY STOCK. On account of the war, fewer shipments, cases and plants were received than during 1916, as the following figures show: These shipments have entered the country under the system of permits and notices adopted by the Federal Horticultural Board five years ago, and which is still in force. Reports have been made to the Board of 171 shipments, 8 of which were not inspected; 3 were refused by consignee, 2 contained seeds, 2 herbaceous stock, and one was destroyed by consignee. The stock came from about the same countries and in about the same proportions as in 1916, except that from Belgium a larger proportion of shipments was received. Most of the stock grown in Belgium was taken into Holland and shipped from Holland ports. The figures for these shipments are given in in the following table: SOURCES OF IMPORTED NURSERY STOCK, 1916-1917. Most of this stock was inspected by Mr. Lowry, but Messrs. Zappe, Davis, Walden and Britton helped. The total time required in making these inspections amounts to 120 days of 71⁄2 hours each, or about two-fifths of the working time of an entire year. The cost of this work, including time and travelling expenses, has amounted to about $663.00, or slightly more than half that of last year, and has been paid on duly accredited vouchers by order of the State Comptroller from the appropriation for suppressing gipsy and brown-tail moths and for inspecting imported nursery stock. Of the 163 shipments inspected, 45 shipments, or about 28 per cent., were found infested with insects or fungi, some of which are pests. Among others, perhaps one of the most important discoveries was an egg-mass of the European lackey moth, Malacosoma neustria Linn., a defoliator of fruit trees, oak, elm, rose, poplar, hawthorn and hornbeam. Had these eggs not been intercepted, they might have hatched and started a colony of the lackey moth in this country. * Some of the insects were identified here, and some of the fungi were determined by Dr. G. P. Clinton, Botanist of this Station. The other insects and fungi were identified by specialists in the Bureaus of Entomology and Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The information regarding these infestations occurs in the following list: PLANT DISEASES AND INSECTS ON IMPORTED NURSERY STOCK, 1916-17. 45 Shipments infested. Plant Diseases. Exobasidium vaccinii on Azalea. (29 shipments.) Bier & Ankersmit, Melle, Belgium; G. J. Bier, Nieuwerkerk, Holland; Pseudomonas tumifaciens Crown Gall. On Pear. Franco-American Seedling Co., Ussy, France. On Lilac. F. Delaunay, Angers, France. On Rose. F. Delaunay, Angers, France; W. Fromow & Sons, Windlesham, Surrey, England; Vincent Lebreton's Nursery, La PyramideTrelaze, France. Acremoniella atra (a saphrophyte) on Rhododendron. man, Boskoop, Holland. Macrosporium sp. (a saphrophyte) on Rhododendron. man, Boskoop, Holland. Hugo T. Hooft Hugo T. Hooft * W. D. Pierce. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States through Importations. U. S. Dept. of Agr. p. 106, 1917. Pestalozzia guepini on Rhododendron. Harry Koolbergen, Boskoop, Holland; Schaum & Van Tol, Boskoop, Phyllosticta sp. on Rhododendron. Harry Koolbergen, Boskoop, Holland. France. Insects. Scale, Oyster Shell, on Buxus. Jac. Smits & Co., Naarden, Holland; J. Verkade & Sons, Boskoop, Emphytus cinctus on Manetti stock. E. Bruzeau, Orleans, France; F. Delaunay, Angers, France; Franco- Aleyrodes Sp. on Azalea. M. Debaerdemaeker, Everghem, Belgium. Malacosoma neustria, Egg mass. K. Rosbergen & Son, Boskoop, Holland. Acronycta rumicis. F. Delaunay, Angers, France. Acronycta rumicis. Cocoons. Vincent Lebreton's Nursery, La PyramideTrelaze, France. Empty Dipterous Pupae on Azaleas. W. C. Hage & Co., Boskoop, Holland. Empty Sawfly Cocoon. M. Debaerdemaeker, Everghem, Belgium. Lepidopterous larva in packing material. J. Blaauw & Co., Boskoop, Holland. Leaf Miner, Work in Holly. Jac. Smits & Co., Naarden, Holland. INSPECTION OF APIARIES. This work has been done in about the same manner as in former years, Mr. H. W. Coley of Westport covering Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties, and Mr. A. W. Yates of Hartford covering Litchfield, Hartford, Tolland and Windham Counties. Each inspector has been paid by the day and expenses for the time worked, from the appropriation made by the legislature for this purpose. In 1917, 473 apiaries were inspected as against 467 in 1916, and though nearly all expenses have increased, the costs per apiary and per colony are slightly less than last year. Eighty-four towns were visited as against 96 last year. In 1917 apiaries were inspected in the following 18 towns where no inspections were made in 1916: Branford, North Branford, Durham, |