WEW YORK 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



DEPARTISIENT OF AaHIOULTUIiE 



Trinidad and Tobae-o. 



Part 4.] 1922. [Vol. XIX. 



PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS. 



PLANT PROTECTION LEGISLATION IN TRINIDAD. 



With Notes by Wm. Nowell, d.i.c, Assistant Director of Agriculture 

 and Pathologist ; and F. W. Urich, f.e.s., c.m.z.s., Entomologist. 



HE re-organisation of the Department of Agriculture of Trinidad and 

 Tobago, which took effect from September 1920, has made it 

 possible, by bringing together an adequate staff under one direction, 

 to improve and extend the application of the powers made 

 available under the Plant Protection Ordinance of the Colony. 



In the following pages the text of the present Ordinance and of the 

 various proclamations and regulations now in force based upon this 

 and previous Ordinances is given together with notes on the pests and 

 diseases pi'oclaimed. 



The Plant Protection Ordinance, No. 29-1919. 



An Ordinance for the prevention and eradication of Diseases 

 and Pests affecting vegetation. 



December 17, 1919. 



Be it enacted by the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago with the 

 advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows r~ 



1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Plant Protection Ordinance, 1919. 



2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires :— 



The expression " Disease " means any disease affecting trees, shrubs 

 or herbs caused by or consisting in the presence of any pathogenical Jretation 

 ammal or vegetable organism which the Governor may by proclamation 

 from time to time declare to be a disease within the meaning of this 

 Ordinance : 



The expression "Pest" includes any parasitical, epiphytal or other 

 ammal or vegetable organism, and also any insect or other invertebrate 

 ammal (in whatever stage of existence such insect or animal may be) 



Short title. 



