96 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AND PUERTO RICAN 
QUARANTINE COVERING SAND, SOIL, OR EARTH, WITH PLANTS 
(NO. 60) 
REVISED HAWAIIAN AND PUERTO RICAN QUARANTINE COVERING SAND, SOIL, 
OR EARTH, WITH PLANTS 
[Press notice] 
August 18, 1936. 
Notice of Quarantine No. 60. the Hawaiian and Puerto Rican quarantine cov- 
ering sand, soil, or earth with plants, has been revised, the Secretary of Agri- 
culture announced today. The revision contains provision for the retention on 
board vessels at mainland ports of plants in soil, originating in these Terri- 
tories and carried for ornamental purposes, when adequate safeguards have 
been employed to preclude pest risk, although still prohibiting landing of plants 
in soil on the mainland. 
REVISION OF QUARANTINE 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
Notice of Quarantine No. 60 originally prohibited the movement of plants in 
soil from the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico to the mainland. In- 
formation accumulated since this quarantine was first promulgated indicates 
that, under satisfactory safeguards, plants in soil originating in the Territories 
of Hawaii and Puerto Rico may be carried by, and may remain on, vessels for 
ornamental purposes while such vessels are in mainland waters, without risk 
of spreading the pests named in the quarantine. The present revision of Notice 
of Quarantine No. 60 makes provision for retention of potted plants on board 
vessels from Hawaii and Puerto Rico when evidence is presented satisfactory 
to the plant quarantine inspector that the soil about the plants has been so 
sterilized or otherwise treated that pest risk is eliminated, that it is of such 
nature that there is no pest risk, or that the safeguards erected around such 
soil are adequate to preclude pest escape. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 60 (REVISED) 
(Approved Aug. 14, 1936; effective Sept. 1, 1936) 
Whereas the Secretary of Agriculture, after holding the required public 
hearing, did issue Notice of Quarantine No. 60, on February 19, 1926, in order 
to prevent the spread of certain injurious insects named therein, and did 
declare therein, under the authority of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 
1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended, that sand (other than clean ocean sand), soil, 
or earth around the roots of plants should not be shipped, offered for ship- 
ment to a common carrier, received for transportation, or transported by a 
common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from 
the Territories of Puerto Rico and Hawaii into or through any other State 
or Territory or District of the United States ; 
And whereas it is now believed that plants in sand, soil, or earth originating 
in Hawaii or Puerto Rico, which are carried for ornamental purposes on vessels 
entering the territorial waters of continental United States, may be allowed 
to remain on board, under certain conditions and safeguards, without risk 
of spreading the pests named in the said Notice of Quarantine No. 60, and 
that it should be revised accordingly : 
Now, therefore, I, M. L. Wilson, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, under 
authority of said Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, the required public 
hearing having been duly given, and having determined that it is necessary 
to quarantine the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico to prevent the spread, 
by means of sand, soil, or earth about the roots of plants, of immature stages 
of certain injurious insects, including Phyllopliaga spp. (white grubs), Phytalus 
