The Department of Forests and Waters is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and to designate fruiting currant and gooseberry control areas and white pine blister rust control areas. It is further authorized and empowered to promulgate by letter, publication, poster, or other means, information concerning these control areas. In designating fruiting currant and gooseberry control areas, the Department of Forests and Waters, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, shall use due care to fix their boundaries so as to include areas where currants and gooseberries are grown on a commercial scale and where their value for this purpose is clearly greater than the use of the area for the production of white pine. In designating white pine blister rust control areas, the Department of Forests and Waters shall use due care to fix their boundaries so as to protect white pines on such areas from damage by white pine blister rust. It shall be the duty of every land owner within such designated areas to carry out such control measures as are ordered by the Department of Forests and Waters, including the removal and destruction of any or all wild and cultivated currants and gooseberries or white pines. No currants or gooseberries shall be planted within such white pine blister rust control areas without written permission from the Department of Forests and Waters. No white pines shall be planted within such fruiting currant or gooseberry control areas without written permission of the Department of Forests and Waters. If the owner fails to destroy the above named plants within the time specified by the Department of Forests and Waters, the Department of Forests and Waters shall cause said plants to be destroyed. The expense thereof shall be collected from the owner by instituting, in the name of the Commonwealth, an action of assumpsit in the court of common pleas of any county through which the defendant can be served with process. All moneys recovered, less any expenses incurred in litigation, including the fees of special attorneys, if any employed therein, shall be paid into the general fund of the State Treasury.