524 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Bagging imported during the year ended June 30, 1919, 

 [By country and port.] 



Cotton seed and cottonseed products imported during the year ended June 



30, 1919, 



NURSERY STOCK, PLANT, AND SEED IMPORTATIONS. 



The need of additional restrictions or prohibitions with respect to 

 the entry of various classes of nursery stock and other plants and seeds 

 was referred to in the report of the Federal Horticultural Board for 

 last year, and also the holding of a public hearing at this department 

 on May 28, 1918, at which the whole subject was fully discussed with 

 all the interests concerned. 



Following the hearing the subject was further studied by the ex- 

 perts of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the department, including 

 a field examination of the conditions throughout the country, to 

 determine the essential needs as to future plant importations. The 

 results of these extended investigations were embodied in a tentative 

 plant quarantine order which was sent, August 29, 1918, to plant trade 

 journals and related societies, and to individuals who had mani- 

 fested an interest in this subject, either by attending the hearing or by 

 correspondence, with the request that the proposed quarantine be 

 given careful consideration, with a view to a conference later to dis- 

 cuss and determine the desirability of the proposed restrictions. This 

 conference was held October 18, 1918, and the quarantine was 

 amended in minor details and promulgated by the department Novem- 

 ber 18, 1918, to take effect June 1, 1919. 



This quarantine with regulations supersedes on and after June 1, 

 1919, the regulations theretofore in force governing the importation 

 of nursery stock and brings under restriction all other plants and 

 plant products for or capable of propagation. Under this quarantine 

 fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products for or capable of 

 propagation, but intended for medicinal, food, or manufacturing 



