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Distribution of imported nursery stock, by States — Continued. 



STATE AND FEDERAL INSPECTION OF IMPORTED PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS. 



As the result of State and Federal inspection of imported nursery 

 stock and other imported plants and plant products durinjT the 

 fiscal year, some 280 different species of insects were intercepted, 

 including seven nests of the brown-tail moth and three egg masses 

 of the gipsy moth from France; six pupa? of the sorrel cutworm on 

 miscellaneous stock from France, and one on azaleas from Belgium; 

 larvae of the gold-tail moth on rhododendrons, laburnums, roses, and 

 Japanese maples from Holland and on Cerasus avium from France; 

 the lesser bulb fly in bulbs from Holland, nests of the fruit-tree 

 pierid in six shipments of deciduous fruit-tree seedlings from 

 France, numerous scale insects and ants from various quarters of 

 the globe. One shipment of cotton seed, infested with the pink boll- 

 worm, from Natal do Norte, Brazil, arrived at New York in viola- 

 tion of Quarantine Notice No. 8, and, as a result, was returned to 

 the port of origin. 



During the same period, 218 plant diseases were intercepted and 

 identified on imported material. These organisms occurred on 115 

 different host plants. Three attempts were made to import, re- 

 spectively, grapefruit, mandarin orange, and round orange, found 

 to be affected witli citrus canker. All were from the vicinity of 

 Canton, China. With respect to the assurance by nurserymen that 

 apple stocks from France are very free from crown gall, it is intei-- 

 esting to note that every tree of a shipment of 1,009 apple stocks 

 received by the United States Department of Agriculture from 

 France was rejected because it was affected with a hairy root form 

 of crown gall, 



INSPECTION AT PLANT INTRODUCTION GARDENS. 



A very important part of the Federal inspection work has relation 

 to the plant introduction gardens maintained by the Department of 

 Agriculture at Yarrow, Md., Miami and Brownsville, Fla., and Chico, 



