650 ANlSrUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Nursery 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, revised.) 



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

 from the countries enumerated in the potato 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. Importation of potatoes is now authorized from the following 

 countries: Bermuda and the Dominion of Canada; also from the States of 

 ('hihualiua and Sonora, and the Imperial Valley of Lower California, Mexico. 

 The regulations issued under this order have been amended so as to permit, 

 free of any restrictions whatsoever under the plant quarantine act, the importa- 

 tion 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 alligator pear. — The order of February 27, 1914, prohibits the 

 importation fi'om 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 tlie regulations issued under said order, on account of 

 the avocado weevil. Entry is permitted through the port of New York only 

 and is limited to the large, thick-skinned variety of the avocado. The importa- 

 tion of the small, purple, thin-skinned variety of the fruit of the avocado and of 

 avocado nursery stock under IS 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. 



Cottonseed products. — The order of June 23, 1917, prohibits the importation 

 of cottonseed cake, meal, and all other cottonseed products, except oil, from 

 all foreign countries, and a second order of June 23, 1917, prohibits the impor- 

 tation of cottonseed oil from Mexico, except under permit and in accordance 

 with the other provisions of the regulations issued under said orders, on account 

 of injurious insects, including the pink bollworm. 



MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS. 



Rules and regulations governing (1) entry for immediate export, (2) entry 

 for immediate transportation and exportation in bond, and (3) safeguarding the 

 arrival at a port where entry or landing is not intended of prohibited plants and 

 plant products.— These rules and regulations, as revised August 1, 1920, gov- 

 ern the unloading and transfer of cargoes and transportation in bond when it 

 is determined that such entry can be made without involving risk to the plant 

 cultures of the United States, and also provide for the safeguarding at a port 

 or within the territorial waters of the United States where entry or landing is 

 not intended of any prohibited or restricted plants and plant products. 



Rules and regiilations governing the movement of plants and plant products 

 into and out of the District of Columbia. — These rules and regulations were 

 promulgated August 26, 1920, under the amendment to the plant quarantine act 

 of May 31 of that year. They provide for the regulation of the movement of 

 plants and plant products, including nursery stock, from or into the District of 

 Columbia and for the control of injurious plant diseases and insect pests within 

 the said District. 



