224 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



QUARANTINE hs ,^, ]^ DIVISION 



REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 1914. 



By Frederick Maskew, Chief Deputy Quarantine Offlcer, San Francisco, California. 



Recognizing that in a state as extensive as California many of the im- 

 portations of nursery stock from foreign countries destined for interior 

 points and arriving by rail from the Eastern seaboard must of a neces- 

 sity be inspected by the state quarantine guardians located at the point 

 of delivery, the Federal Horticultural Board, through the courtesy of 

 Dr. C. L. Marlatt, has placed all such quarantine guardians on their 

 mailing list, and in future all regulations and quarantines issued under 

 or concerning the Plant Quarantine Act, as also the series of News 

 Letters, issued by the Federal Horticultural Board, will promptly find 

 their way into the hands of these officers. The News Letters are of 

 special value to horticultural inspectors in that they contain a list of 

 the pests and diseases found in and upon imported plant products, to- 

 gether with the name of the host plant and the country in which the 

 material was grown ; and a study of the same will soon enable inspectors 

 to intelligently examine horticultural material arriving from any 

 foreign source. The publication of this list of pests, hosts and localities 

 of infested shipments into any part of the United States is a policy that 

 is destined to be a far reaching one and one that will ultimately produce 

 results that will be permanent. California quarantine officers should 

 consider it incumbent upon them as a matter of added protection, both 

 to the counties of which they have charge as well as to the state at large, 

 to facilitate this work of the Federal authorities by promptly furnishing 

 the information requested on the report forms which are always sent in 

 advance of the arrival of any shipment of foreign nursery stock at 

 points within their jurisdiction. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Horticultural imports — 



Parcels. 



Ships inspected 50 



Pas.sed as free from pests 13;^,2lts 



Fumigated 3.4.~i3 



Destroyed or returned 294 



Contrahand destroyed I» 



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Tot;il ]iarcels Imrtii-iilnir.-il ini|iiirts \'nv llic numlli 1.'!7,01.'4 



Horticultural exports — 



Inspected and <-('i'lilieil . 1 .HT'^ 



