670 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



QUARANTINE ^2 -^J^, ]%] DIVISION 



COUNTY HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONERS AND STATE 



QUARANTINE GUARDIANS. 



By Frederick Maskew, Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer, San Francisco, CaL 



The writing of the monthly record of the quarantine division has 

 never, so far, furnished as much real pleasure to the author as the one 

 herein set forth. The spontaneous, voluntary agreement of the county 

 horticultural commissioners made at Sacramento, to henceforth work 

 in harmony with the State Office has made possible the consummation 

 of a long and ardently desired policy on the part of the executive head 

 of the quarantine division. This department deals directly with county 

 horticultural commissioners in so far as their functions as state quaran- 

 tine guardians are concerned, or more directly speaking, in the matter 

 of horticultural material arriving within the territory under their 

 jurisdiction from outside the State boundary. 



The establishment of a uniform policy and procedure in the matter 

 of executing interstate quarantine regulations in each and all of the 

 protected counties similar to those in vogue at all of the stations of 

 the coast division will greatly increase the respect, of future shippers 

 for our insistent demand for clean nursery stock and create a general 

 appreciation of the fact that the horticultural statutes of California 

 were enacted with the intention that the same should be obeyed. 



A full measure of recognition has been accorded to the coast division 

 of the state quarantine service for their efforts and results, and it is 

 the earnest desire of the writer that this shall extend to the entire 

 interior division of the service. Every state quarantine guardian is a 

 member of the quarantine division, and the complete working in unison 

 of all concerned will cement together an impregnable wall of protection, 

 through or over which no infected shipments can pa.ss, and whatever 

 good results to the State at large, the same will redound to the indi- 

 vidual credit of each member of the entire division. What the central 

 office at San Francisco needs to bring about this desired condition is 

 prompt information of the receipt of imported horticultural products 

 at interior points each month. In return for this collaboration, the 



central office stands ready to furnish advice — and assistance if needed 



drawn from the great amount of material and information at its com- 

 mand concerning the insect pests and their host plants of the world at 

 large, and the State regulations that govern their introduction. 



