Show nursery inspection in many of 0 our states at the present time laws exist requiring the inspection spec tion ot of all nurseries by officials connected yath the office ot of the state entomologist buyers of 0 fruit trees should note the tact fact that sucu suca inspections are not sufficiently rigid to make thera them guarantees of 0 the tha freedom ir from 0 ra insects and fungous diseases ot of stock from the inspected nurseries the en ell claim that an inspection to be really effect ve must include the close scrutiny of 0 every tree in the nursery which it Is manifestly impossible to have in the few hours devoted to inspection the number ot of individual trees often runs up into the thousands making a close examination of each one impracticable but tor for all this the inspection is valuable as the inspectors have a chance ot of finding orchard pests it they exist there this possibility acts as an incentive to the nurseryman to do much inspecting himself previous to the visit 0 of the official inspector the purchasers of nursery stock should however inform themselves on the insects and fungi and do some inspecting on their own account |