620 ANNUA!. REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Tlie record of entry under special permits of restricted plants 

 under regulation 14 for the purpose of keeping the country supplied 

 with new varieties and necessary propagating stock and to meet any 

 other technical or research need is given in the following table. 

 Durincr the fiscal year 1922, 750 such special permits were issued, 

 covering the entry of 9,573,199 plants and bulbs. Importations 

 have already been made under 518 of these special permits of 3,344,026 

 plants and "bulbs. In addition to the record for 1922, data for the 

 three years during which the quarantine • has been in effect are: 

 included. It will be noted that during the thi-ee years a total of 

 11,344 varieties of plants has been under consideration, of which 

 loillo, or 89.1 per cent, have been approved for entry. The dis- 

 crepancy betw^een the numbers of plants authorized and the numbers 

 imported is due largely to the fact that the permittees have not been 

 able to secure abroad the quantities of plants which they have been 

 authorized to import. In many instances such permits were reissued 

 the year following. In this connection it should be remembered 

 that these special permits are issued for new varieties and stock 

 unavailable in the United States and the permittee^ asked for all 

 they hoped to get, but very naturally such material is often limited 

 as to quantity in the country of origin. A considerable percentage 

 of the permits issued during the last fiscal year have been renewed 

 for the present year where the importer was unable to secure his 

 material and make his importations under the original permit. All 

 special permits, except for orchids, are terminated at the end of the 

 fiscal year (June 30) and reissued if necessary. In the case of orchid 

 permits, these are valid through the calendar year. 



Special permit importations, fiscal year 1922, with combined totals for 1920, 1921, 



and 1922. 



