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The next regular meeting of the Pacific Slope Branch will be held in connection 

 with the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advanc- 

 mcnt of Science and afifiliated societies at Salt Lake City, June 22-24, 1922. A 

 summer meeting of the A.A.A.S. is also to be called at Salt Lake City at the same 

 time, and we of the Pacific Slope Branch are very anxious for our parent Association 

 to meet with us at that time. E. O. Essig, Secretary. 



H0RTICULTUR.\L INSPECTION NoTES 



The Sorrel Cutworm, Acronycta rumicis L., was recently intercepted on fruit 

 seedlings from France by Mr. T. T. Haack of Pennsylvania. 



An amendment to the Minnesota quarantine on account of the European corn 

 borer, effective February 25, 1922, includes the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and 

 Michigan and the Province of Ontario. 



Since the first of the year, ninety-one nests of the White Tree Pierid, Aporia crataegi 

 L., have been intercepted by State and Federal inspectors on fruit and rose stocks 

 arri\dng from France. 



Thus far, only two nests of the Brown-Tail Moth, Euproctis chrysorrhoea L., have 

 been reported this season on fruit stock from France. One was found by State In- 

 spector Dodge of New York on pear, and the other by Messrs. Zappe and Sealy of 

 Connecticut, on Apple. 



Apple stock from France is showing a relatively heavy infection with Hairy Root, 

 which has been reported by a number of state inspectors. Recently Professor G. M . 

 Bentley of Tennessee reported the finding of 7,210 infected plants in two shipments 

 of French apple stock, consisting of 148,000 plants. 



At the request of the President of the Association of Nurserymen, the conference 

 on ]ilant quarantines originall}^ called to meet in Washington on March 15, and post- 

 poned at the request of the Society of American Florists and Horticulturists to April 

 19, has again been postponed until May 15. 



The A miual Letter of Information, published b}^ the Federal Horticultural Board 

 which lists the pests collected on imported plants and plant products from January 

 1 to December 31 , 1921 , inclusive, has been compiled and will shortly be released in 

 printed form. Copies of this letter will be available for distribution to all inspectors 

 engaged in the examination of foreign plant material. 



Mr. Emile Kftstal, an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board, located in New 

 York Cit>-, recently discovered living larv^ae of the Pink Bollworm in cotton seed which 

 was mixed wth cotton lint used as packing around souvenirs from St. Kitts. This 

 interception emphasizes the possibility of introducing the Pink Bollworm in cotton 

 and cotton waste used as packing for glass, china, or other articles. 



Mr. Ivan Shiller, who has recently completed postgraduate work at the Texas 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, College Station, Texas, was appointed Plant 

 Quarantine Inspector with assignment at Del Rio, Texas. Air. Robert A. Rodgers, 

 formerly of the Forest Service, was recently transferred to the Federal Horticultural 

 Board and located at Nogales, Arizona. Both of these men are assigned to the Plant 

 Quarantine Inspection Service. 



An attempt to smuggle into the United States, Mexican oranges in violation of 

 Quarantine No. 5 (Mexican Fruit Fly) promulgated August 30, 1912, was recently 

 thwarted by Federal Inspector Vernon J. Shiner, who discovered a number concealed 

 under the rear seat of an automobile arriving at Laredo, Texas. Mr. H. H. Willis, 

 who is in charge of the work of the Plant Quarantine Inspection Service at El Paso, 

 reports that an attempt was made by two Mexicans early in January to smuggle 

 a quantity of sugar cane into the UnitedStatesfrom Juarez in violation of Quarantine 

 No. 15, issued June 6, 1914. Steps have been taken to prosecute in both instances, 

 the offenders at El Paso being jailed on account of inability to pay bail. 



