The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-29
FACTS FOR HORTICULTURIsTs.
Shippers Must Disinfect Fruit Trees
Winter Washes for Dormant Season.

Shippers Must Disinfect Fruit Trees
Winter Washes for Dormant Season.
The following regulations OF the state board
OF horticulture will appear IN bulletin No. 2,
now being issued to be sent to all parts of the
state:
To the Public and Especially the Horticulturists,
Nursergmea and Dealers IN Fruit and Fruit Trees Of
the state Of Washington: The state board of hor-
tcuIture OF the state OF Washington present to
you, in compliance with the law creating said
board, their bulletin No. 2, containing the
names and description OF certain insects that
infest the orchards and gardens OF this state,
also the remedies recommended, that you may
adopt aud use such remedies for the extermina-
tod and destruction OF such insects and fruit
pests.
The board order and direct that all fruit trees
brought into this state or those in this state
about to be disseminated shall be disiniected BE-
fore delivering to parties who have contracted
for the purchase OF said trees or before offered
Tor sale, and nurserymen residing in this state
shall, before shipping from their nurseries. dis
inject their trees with solution given in bulletin
No. or other effective solutions by dipping or
submerging the trees in the same
In orchards where the woolly aphis or San
Jose scale exists, or have been found, attention
must be given during the dormant season, be-
fore the buds start in spring, by use of the win
ter washes or strong solution set forth in bull
ietin No. 2 thereby entirely cleansing the trees
infested.
The board also orders that all persons dealing
In fruit infested with any insect mentioned in
bulletins Nos and 2, or other known and in
furious insect, shall have the same disnfected
and cleansed of such insect before selling or dis
posing of said fruit. That al persons handling
or dealing with such infested fruit shall, after
disiufecting the fruit aud destroying the insect,
burn all packing in which said fruit was shipped
or handled; also burn all boxes, bales, crates,
sacks or material that contained infested fruit,
fruit trees, plants and shrubs, or otherwise dis
inject them by pouring boiling hot water over
them, or by saturating them with any known
destructive solution. 1t has been discovered
that fruits shipped from without this state and
sold upon the markets in this state are in some
cases infested with the dreadful San Jose SCALE
red scale white scale and Goblin moth, the
worst enemies TO fruit growers. All fruit deal.
ers are hereby notified that they shall disinfect
and destroy all such insects or other injurious
insects known to them before selling or Offering
for sale such infested fruit
The law prescribes that any person neglecting
or refusing to comply with the regulation of the
board, after due notice has been given, shall be
deemed guilty of msdemeenor, and, upon con-
Vlction thereof, shall be fined not iess than SIS,
nor more than 500, and the material infested
shall be declared nuisance and abated at the
cost Of the party convicted as aforesaid.
The united work and cooperation of every
citizen of the state is asked for by the board in
order to make the work of destroying the vari-
GUS pests that iniest the orchards and gardens
OF this state as thorough and complete as posi-
bic, bel ewing thar by vigorous and diIigent
work for the next twelve months that most of
the various insect pests can be destroyed.