FEDERAL. HORTICULTURAL, BOARD. 635 



INSPECTION OF PLANT-INTRODUCTION GARDENS. 



As in former years, the board has continued to conduct inspections 

 of the various plant-introduction o^ardons maintained by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Yarro^v, Md. : Miami and Brooksville, Fla. : 

 Savannah, Ga.; and Chico, OaliJF., and the field station of the Office 

 of Dry Land Agriculture, at Mandan, X. Dak. 



PORT INSPECTION SERVICE. 



The inspection and disinfection of plants and plant products 

 required as a condition of entrv at the principal ports of the United 

 States has been continued substantially along the lines described 

 in previous reports. Xumerous interceptions have been made at 

 the port of Xew York, including a large shipment of Italian broom 

 corn infested with the European corn borer. A careful inspection 

 has been made of all foreign boats amving at Xew Orleans, 1,608 in 

 number, 289 of which carried contraband material either as cargo, 

 ships' stores or in passengers' baggage. Exclusive of Canadian ar- 

 rivals, 195 foreign ships were inspected at Seattle, 77 of which carried 

 contraband material. The work at this port also included the super- 

 vision of cotton fumigation and corn sterilization. 



In order to strengthen the plant-quarantine service of the State of 

 California, the board has placed a trained pathological inspector at 

 San Francisco to assist and cooperate with the State inspectors at 

 that port. As in the past, the plant-quarantine inspectors of Cali- 

 fornia as well as of the State of Plorida are carried as collaborators 

 of this board. In order to further safeguard against the entry into 

 the Ignited States of quarantined products or injurious insects and 

 plant diseases inspectors have been placed at Portland, Oreg. : Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. : and Norfolk, Va. Moreover, it is proposed to study the 

 conditions at other ports and if necessary establish an inspection 

 service at the places presenting the most danger. It is understood 

 that all port work is conducted in close cooperation with bhe cus- 

 toms officials. 



The matter of strengthening the port-inspection service was brought 

 strongly to the attention of Congress in connection with the estimate.^ 

 for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1921, and $100,000 was included 

 in the estimates for this purpose. Of this amount, S76,756 was 

 appropriated by Congress. The enlargement of the work under the 

 plant-quarantine act leads to a constant growth in the requirements 

 of this port-inspection service and the funds available are still very 

 inadequate to give the service and protection which is necessary to 

 secure the full benefits of the plant-quarantine act. Most of the 

 increase granted last year will be taken up in strengthening the ex- 

 isting service and extensions of the service to the ports of greatest 

 danger which it has not been possible hitherto to safeguard. 



NEW PLANT QUARANTINES. 



The following foreign and domestic quarantines and other res- 

 trictive orders have been promulgated or revised during the year: 



Domestic. — The European corn borer ciuai'antinc (a revision), the 

 Japanese beetle quarantine (a revision), tnc gipsy moth and brown- 

 tail moth (quarantine (a revision), the pink boTlworm ((uarantine, and 

 the Hawaiian and Porto Rican cotton, cotton seed, and cottonseed 

 products quarantine. 



Foreign. — The flag smut and take-all quarantine, the Mexican 

 corn quarantine, the European corn borer and other dangerous in- 



