THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 



REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletins 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological 

 journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



A. J. Cook, State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



E. J. VosLER, Secretary State Commission of Horticulture Editor 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 



Geo. p. Weldon Chief Deputy Commissioner 



Harrt S. Smith Superintendent State Insectary 



Frederick Maskew Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at the post office at Sacramento, 

 California, under the act of July 16, 1S94. 



A Suggestion^Think It Over and Talk About It. — During the 

 Fruit Growers' Convention held at Visalia in November, 1915, a move- 

 ment was inaugurated and the machinery provided for a general reor- 

 ganization of the Horticultural Statutes of the State of California. In 

 consonance with the principles of this movement we offer the following 

 rough draft of a suggested change in the methods at present employed 

 in executing the provisions of the State Quarantine Law at terminal 

 points tliroughout the State, hoping that the same will elicit criticisms 

 and further suggestions which may tend to ultimately perfect and make 

 the plan workable. 



Under the present system our functions are confined to putting into 

 execution the provisions of this law at the maritime ports of entry, and 

 as a result of pursuing a definite, fixed policy of administration and a 

 uniform system of operations we are generall.y credited Avith having 

 obtained a fair measure of success in the undertaking. These results 

 we believe could be duplicated in connection with all horticultural 

 imports arriving by rail if interior ports of entry or clearing houses 

 for such material were established. The geography of the situation 

 lends itself favorably to the consummation of this plan. The present 

 routes of the six interstate railroads entering California are such that 

 but two ports of entry would be needed to meet these requirements. 

 Practically the first distributing point for the Shasta Route, the Ogden 

 Route and the Western Pacific after entering the State is at Sacramento. 

 The same applies to the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Salt 

 Lake at San Bernardino. With a regulation that all imports of plant 

 products coming by rail were to be held at these points, with inspection 

 stations established at these same places, operated by state inspectors 

 under the same policy and procedure as obtains at the maritime ports, 

 many vexatious problems would be permanently solved and the entire 

 s.vstem of inspection and control of horticultural imports simplified. 



