028 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Islands, and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand) on account of dangerous 

 plant diseases, including Japanese apple cankers, blister blight, and rusts, and injuri- 

 ous insect pests, including the oriental fruit moth, the pear fruit borer, the apple 

 moth, etc. 



Cifrm bhid- /?//.— Quarantine No. 49. \7ith regulations: Prohibits the importation 

 of fruits and vegetables, and of plants or portions of plants used as packing material 

 in connection \vith shipments of such fruits and vegetables, or otherwise, from Cuba, 

 the Bahamas. Jamaica, Canal Zone, Costa Rica, India, Philippine Islands, Ceylon, 

 and Java, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, on 

 account of the citrus black fly (Aleurocanthus ivoglumi). 



OTHER RESTRICTIVE ORDERS. 



The regulation of the entry of nursery stock from foreign countries into the United 

 States was specifically proA-ided for in the plant quarantine act. The act further 

 provides for the similar regulation of any other class of plants or plant products when 

 the need ther(>for shall be determined. The entry of the plants and plant products 

 listed below has been brought under such regulation: 



Kfurseri/ stock. — The conditions governing the entry of nursery stock and other 

 plants and seeds from all foreign countries and localities are indicated above under 

 "Foreign quarantines." (See quarantine No. 37, re\dsed.) 



Irish potatoes. — The importation of Irish potatoes is prohibited altogether from the 

 countries enumerated in the ])otato quarantine. Potatoes may be admitted from 

 other foreign countries under permit and in accordance with the provisions of the 

 regulations issued under order of December 22, 1913, bringing the entry of potatoes 

 under restriction on account of injurious potato diseases and insect pests. Importa- 

 tion of potatoes is now authorized from the following countries: Denmark, Cuba, 

 Bermuda, and the Dominion of ('anada; also from the States of Chihuahua and Sonora, 

 and the Imperial V'alley in Lower California, Mexico. The regulations issued under 

 this order have been amended so as to permit, free of any restrictions whatsoever 

 "inder the plant quarantine act, the importation of potatoes from any foreign country 

 into the Territories of Porto Rico and Hawaii for local use only and from the Dominion 

 of Canada and Bermuda into the United States or any of its Territories or Districts. 



Avocado, or aUicjator pear. — The order of February 27, 1914. prohibits the importa- 

 tion from Mexico and the countries of Central America of the fruits of the avocado, or 

 alligator pear, except under permit and in accordance with the other provisions of 

 the regulations issued under said order, on account of the avocado weevil. Entry is 

 perinitted through the port of New York only and is limited to the large, thick-skinned 

 v^ariety of the avocado. The importation of the small, purple, thin-skinned variety 

 r>f the fruit of the avocado and of avocado nursery stock under 18 months of age, is 

 prohibited. 



Cotton. — -The order of April 27, 1915, prohibits the importation of cotton from all 

 foreign countries and localities, except under permit and in accordance with the other 

 provisions of the regulations issued under said order, on account of injurious insects, 

 including the pink bollworm. These regulations apply in part to cotton grown in 

 and imported from the Imperial Valley, in the State of Lower California. Mexico. 



Votto n seed product n. — The order of June 23. 1917. prohibits the importation of cotton- 

 seed cake. meal, and all other cottonseed products, except oil, from all foreign coun- 

 tries, and a second order of June 23, 1917, prohibits the importation of cottonseed oil 

 from Mexico, except under permit and in accordance with the other pro^•isions of 

 the regulations issued under said orders, on account of injurious insects, including 

 the pinV bollworm. 



