FEDERAL. HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 

 Cotton seed and cottonseed products, 1919-20. 



631 



Port. 



■ Cotton 

 seed. 



Calexipo 



Eagle Pass. 

 Laredo. 



Tana. 

 23,952 



New York 



San Francisco. 

 Seattle 



Total 23,952 



Cotton- 

 seed cake. 



Cotton- Cotton- 

 seed meaL seed oil. 



TffM. 



14,784 

 868 



2,724 

 418 



18,794 



Tom. OalUms. 



1,202 



469,000 

 24, 762 



1,202 493,762 



NURSERY STOCK, PLANT AND SEED IMPORTATIONS. 



Quarantine 37, which applies new and important prohibitions and 

 restrictions on the entry into the United States of nursery stock, 

 phints, and seeds, became efTective June 1, 1919. The fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1920, therefore, represents the first year's record of 

 the enforcement of this quarantine. Under this quarantine three 

 classes of entry are provided for. 



1. Entry of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products 

 which are capable of propagation, intended for medicinal, food, or 

 manufacturing purposes: and field, vegetable, and flower seeds. 

 These classes are permitted entry without permit or other restric- 

 tions, and therefore no record has been kept by the board of such 

 importations. 



2. Nursery stock and other plants and seeds for which permit is re- 

 quired but of which unlimited commercial importation is permitted. 

 This class is restricted to five categories, chiefly certain bulbs, fruit 

 stocks and rose stocks and seeds of trees and ornamental shrubs for 

 propagation. 



3. Entry of any of the prohibited classes of nursery stock under 

 special permits for the purpose of keeping the country supplied with 

 new varieties and necessary propagating stock: in other words, for 

 the establishment of reproduction enterprises in this country so tliat 

 as soon as possible this country shall be independent of all foreign 

 supplies of that character. 



IMPORTATIONS OF NURSERY STpCK AND OTHER PLANTS OF WHICH FREE COMMERCIAL 



ENTRY IS PERMITTED. 



The following three tables record the importations of nursery stock 

 and other plants and seeds of which unlimited commercial importa- 

 tion under regulation 3 is provided for in the quarantine under per- 

 mit. The records of importations given m these tables are based on 

 the notice of arrival visaed by the customs officers as is required 

 under the quarantine, and therefore represent probably as accurate 

 information of the plants thus imported as is obtainable. 



The first table gives a record of the importations of fruit stocks 

 and rose stocks, togetlier with country of origin. It is interesting 

 to note that the importation of fruit stocks this year represents a 

 total of 7,850,020 plants and compares tlierefore favorably with the 

 total importations recorded in the annual report for the previous liscal 

 year, and would seem to dispose of the contention fre(|uently made 

 that the unavailability of foreign fruit stocks during the last fiscal 



