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during the past thirty years all that is rare as well as all that is common 

 in plant life and its products grown throughout the islands of the 

 Pacific and the continents that border its shores, together with the 

 insect pests that infest the same, have been met with and disposed of 

 at the quarantine lines at the port of San Francisco. So much is this 

 so that to us an invoice invariably resolves itself into a catalogue of 

 insects rather than an itemized list of the plants contained in the 

 shipment. 



As the inspection work progressed events developed, and it was soon 

 apparent that despite all of our preparatory efforts there appeared to 

 be many places in the world where plants grow that our advice and 

 suggestions had not reached, also places where we knew the same had 

 reached but had not been heeded, and it proved fortunate that we had 



Fig. 76. — Showing enclosed Inspection station on Panama-racific International 

 Exposition grounds. (Photo by L. A. Whitnej'. ) 



Federal and State quarantine regulations to fall back upon ; conse- 

 quently, there were fumigating, dipping, stripping of soil, rejecting 

 and actual destruction of specimens, but of one thing there was a total 

 absence throughout the entire period of installation and that was the 

 development of any friction between the parties concerned. In justice 

 to the exhibitors as a whole it should be stated that the foregoing as 

 cited were of the minor class of shipments and the material was intended 

 more as curiosities than of economic importance. With the larger 

 exhibits there was every evidence that the greatest of care had been 

 exercised in the selection and preparation of the specimens; particu- 

 larly was this so with the Netherlands and Japanese exhibits. In the 

 case of Japan, notwithstanding our most diligent search we failed to 

 find a single live specimen of insect pest on any part of its immense 

 exhibit, and the same is true with one exception in the case of the 

 Netherlands, and these our initial findings are being corroborated by 

 a constant daily inspection of this same material by the quarantine 

 service as well as by an employee detailed in each instance for this 



