G94 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



JAPANESE LAW RELATING TO INSPECTION OF EXPORTED 

 ORNAMENTAL AND NURSERY STOCK 



For years the officers of the Department of Agriculture and Com- 

 merce of the Japanese Government have been looking seriously to the 

 passing of a bill to prohibit the exportation of ornamental and nursery 

 stock which was infested with injurious insect pests and plant diseases. 

 It was only recently that such a law has been passed and put into 

 execution in Japan, and inspectors are now busy inspecting and fumi- 

 gating all ornamental and nursery stock at the main ports where they 

 are shipped to foreign countries. 



The history of the California State Quarantine Division at San Fran- 

 cisco has disclosed many facts relative to the importation of horti- 

 cultural products from Japan, and no doubt the new Japanese law will 

 be warmly welcomed, not only by this division, but by the entire State. 

 The Japanese, on the other hand, have appreciated the efforts of the 

 quarantine officials of California and the great work that has been 

 done in connection with the Oriental staff of ({uarantine inspectors with 

 a view of protecting not only California, but the entire United States. 



The rapid growth of horticulture in Japan at the present day has 

 also made it urgent to establish and maintain a quarantine inspection 

 at the ports of entry, to prevent the importation of nursery stock 

 infested with injurious insect pests and fungous diseases. The Japanese 

 entomologists have prepared a bill providing for this protection, but it 

 has not yet been brought before the Congress at Tokio. In Korea, 

 however, such a law has already been passed and the horticultural 

 quarantine inspectors are already at work at the six largest ports of 

 entry, under the direction of Mr. Kisaka, entomologist of the Korean 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. The passage of such a law in Japan 

 will do much to protect her growing horticultural industries and will 

 aid other countries to a large extent also. — S. Nakayama, Stanford 

 University. 



QUARANTINE REGULATION NO. 4. 

 Peach Yellows and Peach Rosette. 



To whom it may concern: 



In an endeavor to bring about a safe and sane application of each provision of 

 the State Quarantine Law, the State Commissioner of Horticulture of the State of 

 California has caused diligent inquiry (covering a period of two years) to be made 

 at all sources of information, both official and otherwise, concerning the distribution 

 of "peach yellows" and "contagious peach rosette" in and throughout the United 

 States. 



Based upon the findings submitted to the State Commissioner of Horticulture of 

 California by the Missouri State Board of Horticulture as the result of an official 

 orchard survey of that state ordered by the legislature, and which was made and 

 continued over a period of two years, and during all of which period no evidence of 

 "peach yellows" or "peach rosette" was found to exist in the orchards of the State 

 of Missouri ; 



It is, until further ordered, hereby declared that the provisions of Section 6 of the 

 State Quarantine Law of the State of California do not apply to any district within 

 the boundaries of the State of Missouri. 



(Signed.) A. J. Cook, 

 State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



