BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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Quarantines affecting Mexican plants and plant products: Fines aggregating 
$247.05 were imposed by customs officials on the Mexican border againsl 245 
persons caught attempting to smuggle in from Mexico prohibited plants and plant 
products. 
Quarantines affecting Canadian plants and plant products: A fine of $L> was 
imposed by a customs official on the Canadian border against one person caught 
attempting to smuggle in from Canada prohibited plants. 
FOREIGN PLANT QUARANTINES 
The Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines is engaged in the enforcement of 
quarantines and regulatory orders of the Department prohibiting or restricting 
the entry of various plants and plant products into the United States and, in 
addition, the enforcement of such domestic quarantines as affect the movement 
of plant material between the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico and con- 
tinental United States. The number of quarantines involved during the year 
remained the same as last fiscal year, namely, 24 foreign plant qua rat hies and 
regulatory orders, 8 domestic plant quarantines, and 4 miscellaneous regulatory 
measures. 
Plant-quarantine inspectors and collaborators are stationed at the more im- 
portant ports of entry and at points distributing foreign mail and work in 
close cooperation with employees of the Treasury and Post Office Departments. 
Detailed information on the various quarantines and regulatory orders is 
available in other publications. Enforcement activities are summarized in the 
succeeding sections of this report, accompanied by tables presenting in con- 
densed form records indicating the scope of the work and the results obtained. 
RECORDS OF IMPORTS OF RESTRICTED PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
Under the various foreign quarantines and orders certain plants and plant 
products are restricted as to entry and are subject to inspection and. if neces- 
sary, disinfection for the purpose of excluding plant diseases and insect pests. 
Among such restricted plants and plant products are nursery stock, plants, bulbs, 
and seeds ; fruits and vegetables ; grains from certain countries ; cotton, cotton 
waste, cotton wrappings (bagging), and cottonseed products; cottonseed, seed 
cotton, and cottonseed hulls from the Imperial Valley, Baja California, Mexico ; 
bagasse ; and certain packing materials. A record is given of the importation 
of the products inspected by inspectors of the Bureau and, if necessary, treated 
under their supervision. 
IMPORTATIONS OF NURSERY STOCK, PLANTS, BULBS, AND SEEDS 
The importations recorded in tables 26 to 28 were entered under permit, subject 
to inspection and treatment, when necessary, under regulation 3 of Quaran- 
tine No. 37. 
Table 26. — Importation of fruit and nut cuttings and scions and of rose stocks 
under regulation 3, Quarantine No. 37, by country of origin, fiscal year 1936 
[Figures indicate actual number of propagating units] 
Kind of material 
Austria 
Bel- 
gium 
Canada 
England 
France 
Ger- 
many 
Hun- 
gary 
Italy 
Nether- 
lands 
Cuttings and scions: 
Apple.. 
1,233 
90 
202 
10 
Apricot... 
Cherry 
9 
10 
450 
Fig.... 
Grape 
140 
52 
16 
522 
Nut 
233 
16 
49 
13 
Pear 
102 
Plum 
Prunus sp 
10 
10.000 
Rose stocks 
1, 109, 304 
6, 290, 137 
Total 
140 
52 
1,540 
1, 109, 394 
16 
10, 324 
522 
473 
6, 290, 137 
