354 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



recognition of the paramount right of protection demanded by our 

 horticultural and agricultural interests from any further intro- 

 duction of new pests and diseases, I suggest as a safeguard the 

 following procedure to govern the introduction, if solicited, of 

 specimens of quarantined plants intended for exhibition purposes 

 at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. 



That the horticultural department of the Exposition provide 

 prior to the planting of any imported plant material adequate 

 inspection and fumigating facilities on the Exposition grounds, 

 to wit: A fenced (board) inclosure, a closed inspection shed and 

 a fumigating room. 



That all packages of horticultural material arriving from outside 

 the State lines and destined for use of any kind (exhibit or other- 

 wise) on the Exposition grounds, be ordered taken from the point 

 of entry without unpacking, direct to the inspection shed as pro- 

 vided. 



Each shipment of any species of plant against which a quaran- 

 tine order has been issued by the State Commissioner of Horti- 

 culture to bear a certificate of inspection signed by the state ento- 

 mologist of the state in which the same was grown and stating that 

 each plant in the shipment had been inspected within the thirty 

 days next preceding the day of shipment, that no species of insect 

 pests against which a quarantine order has been issued had been 

 found on the same and that all plants contained in the shipment 

 were to be used on the grounds of the Exposition. 



That the consignors of all shipments of horticultural material 

 destined for the Exposition and which contain specimens of 

 material against Avhich a quarantine order has been issued by the 

 State Commissioner of Horticulture shall notify the quarantine 

 office at San Francisco in advance of the sending of each and all 

 such shipments. 



A compliance with the foregoing suggested regulations should 

 in my opinion remove all apprehension from the minds of intend- 

 ing exhibitors as to assumed rejection of their sendings and also 

 from that of the producers of this State of any dread of new 

 infestation. 



I also further respectfully suggest that a definite official policy 

 in this matter be promptly adopted and a positive statement of the 

 proposed action made to the chief of the department of horticul- 

 ture of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition so that he may 

 incorporate the same in his invitations to all of those he is desirous 

 of having participate in the horticultural exhibit proposed and 

 outlined for the coming Exposition. 



The above applies as well to the coming Exposition at San 

 Diego." 



The wisdom of the policy incorporated in these resolutions was 

 demonstrated many times during the interim between their adoption 

 and the opening of the Exposition, and the discussion of the same at 

 the numerous conferences held by the directors of exhibits, the pros- 

 pective exhibitors and the quarantine officer has perhaps accomplished 

 more in establishing the real purpose, the necessity and the sanity of 

 California's horticultural quarantine restrictions, than any and all 



