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opportunity of a life time granted to California producers to demon- 

 strate to all concerned that their rigid horticultural quarantine regu- 

 lations and restrictions are issued and maintained solely as a matter 

 of better farm sanitation and not for commercial purposes. With this 

 end in view we started out to solve the problem of horticultural exhibits 

 for the Exposition. 



Despite a full and properly digested knowledge of the scope and 

 power of the enacted horticultural quarantine laws, rules and regula- 

 tions of both State and Federal governments, and my facilities for 

 locally enforcing the same, a clear insight into what the Exposition 

 portended horticulturally kept ever before my mind as a specter, the 

 entomological aftermath alleged to have followed in the wake of former 

 expositions; and with a determination to prevent, if possible, a similar 

 recurrence here at San Francisco, I sought diligently for a definite 

 policy to cover this peculiar situation, and more particularly a formula 

 for this same policy so simple as to be universally workable and at the 

 same time comprehensive enough to cover all contingencies, and one 

 that I could consistently pursue to the end and maintain against all 

 objections. The ultimate goal was clear to me, and as a means of 

 approaching, perhaps reaching that end. I eventually adopted the 

 following policy to govern all imports of plant products entering the 

 Exposition grounds : 



Modifications of certain quarantine orders issued by the State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture of California under fixed restrictions to be 

 granted to bona fide exhibition specimens of quarantined plants from 

 other states of the United States. 



No unprocessed hosts of any species of fruit flies from any country 

 where the same were known to exist should be passed in for any pur- 

 pose whatsoever. 



No exceptions whatever for any reasons to the regulations of the 

 United States Plant Quarantine Act and the provisions of the several 

 Federal quarantines without special orders from Washington, D. C. 



Having established in my own mind the foregoing method of pro- 

 cedure I commenced to lay the foundation for its successful accomplish- 

 ment two years before the Exposition opened its gates to the public. 

 To definitely and officially assure the horticulturists of the United 

 States that (under the simplest of restrictions) all regulations of exist- 

 ing quarantine orders issued by the State Commissioner of Horticulture 

 had been suspended from specimens destined for exhibition purposes 

 only, a set of resolutions, as herewith appended, was submitted, voted 

 upon separately and finally approved by a committee representing the 

 several horticultural interests of California and assembled for this 

 specific purpose at Sacramento, California, on February 27, 1913. 



"In the matter of admitting exhibition specimens of quaran- 

 tined plant material. There has been a precedent established for 

 a modification of certain provisions of a quarantine order when 

 the peculiar and specific circumstances requiring the same were 

 considered of sufficient value and importance to the State at large 

 to justify the modification of a regulation made and provided to 

 meet all the varying contingencies of commercial traffic. There 

 will not, I think, be any question of the importance of the proposed 

 horticultural exhibit at the coming Exposition. With a full 



