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ous shrubs, pine trees of all kinds, broad-leaved evergreens (such 

 as azaleas and rhododendrons), and a long list of plant material 

 commonly known as florists' stock. 



Excluded plants may still be imported through the agency of 

 the Department of Agriculture, in limited quantities to supply 

 the country with novelties and necessary propagating stock, such 

 entry being safeguarded by highly-developed inspection and quar- 

 antine service which has been organized by the Department. 



6. The Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction in the 

 Department of Agriculture will act as an agency to aid horticul- 

 turists and others in the importation of novelties and plants for 

 propagating, etc. The office has been introducing new and rare 

 plants for more than twenty years and during that time it has 

 brought in more than 50,000 lots. It has developed special facili- 

 ties for the care of plants during inspection and has established 

 five field stations where its introductions are propagated and tested. 

 It is engaged in constructive work on stocks for American fruit 

 trees and stocks for roses and other ornamental plants. Studies 

 are also being made of the regions which offer the best conditions 

 for the growing of ornamentals and other plants now imported 

 in large numbers but which under the new quarantine will be 

 excluded. 



Discussion. 



A spirited and at times acrimonious discussion followed Dr. 

 Galloway's lecture, especially that part of it referring to the recent 

 regulations of the Federal Horticultural Board governing the 

 importation into the United States of plants and plant products, 

 as embodied in Plant Quarantine No. 37, effective June 1, 1919. 



William N. Craig said he considered Dr. Galloway's defence of 

 Quarantine No. 37 to be rather weak and pitiful. He asked the 

 Lecturer whether there was any more danger in importing such 

 bulbs as iris, snowdrops, chionodoxa, fritillarias, gladioli, begonias, 

 and gloxinias than in tulips, narcissi, hyacinths, crocus, and liliums. 

 Was there any remote possibility that the former should be any 

 greater carriers of pests or diseases than the latter, and could he 

 enumerate any dangerous pests which had come in on bulbs? 



