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PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [Jan.-Mar. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO NARCISSUS-BULB QUARANTINE 
(NO. 62) 
NOTICE OF CONFERENCE TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF THE WITHDRAWAL 
OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FROM THE CERTIFICA- 
TION OF NARCISSUS BULBS FOR INTERSTATE MOVEMENT 
Februaey 18, 1932. 
Notice is hereby given that a public conference will be held by the Plant 
Quarantine and Control Administration in the auditorium of the Natural 
History Building, United States National Museum, Tenth Street and Consti- 
tution Avenue NW., Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m'., on March 28, 1932, at 
which consideration will be given to the withdrawal of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture from the certification of narcissus bulbs for inter- 
state movement and to the revocation of Federal plant quarantine No. 62. 
Such proposed discontinuance of the Federal quarantine would transfer 
to the State nursery inspection organizations the full responsibility for the 
inspection of domestic grown narcissus, and this work would thereafter pre- 
sumably be carried out in the same manner as that in which the States handle 
the inspection of other types of nursery stock, perennial plants, and such bulbs, 
corms, and roots as gladiolus corms and dahlia roots. 
Any person interested in the proposed discontinuance of this quarantine 
may appear at this public conference and be heard either in person or by 
attorney. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
P. Q. C. A.— 332. 
NARCISSUS INSPECTION RECORDS FOR 1931 
March 22, 1932. 
Table 1 gives a record of the narcissus plantings inspected under the Federal 
quarantine for the prevention of spread of bulb pests. The figures given are 
those reported to the administration by the nursery inspectors of the various 
States who act as collaborators of the administration in making such 
inspections. 
Table 1. — Inspection of narcissus and number of bulbs certified and treated, 
19 SI crop 
Plantings 
inspected 
Bulbs inspected 
Bulbs certified 
as uninfested 
Bulbs treated 
and certified 
Poly- 
anthus 
Daffo- 
dils 
Poly- 
anthus 
Daffo- 
dils 
Poly- 
anthus 
Daffo- 
dils 
Poly- 
anthus 
Daffo- 
dils 
Alabama ' 
Arkansas ._ 
1 
182 
4 
173 
1 
5 
5 
24 
5 
6 
6 
4 
3 
28 
23,000 
48, 405, 754 
69, 675 
7, 248, 452 
43,000 
384 
78,000 
1, 340, 000 
3 3, 278, 300 
240,000 
235, 850 
60,000 
( 4 ) 
1, 907, 415 
4, 425, 477 
23,000 
29, 841, 950 
69, 675 
1, 504, 837 
43,000 
California 2 . 
1, 548, 250 
2, 699, 600 
District of Co- 
384 
Florida 
217 
17 
129, 635, 000 
198, 750 
123, 721, 666 
197, 750 
78,000 
978, 700 
3, 066, 600 
80,000 
235, 850 
56,500 
( 4 ) 
1, 760, 837 
1, 135, 010 
5, 834, 000 
32,300 
» 211, 700 
Illinois 
Kansas 
Kentucky 
174 
1 
145, 837 
54, 250 
145, 837 
54, 2.50 
109, 278 
Michigan 
2, 7 02, 50 
1 No report received from Alabama. 
2 Reports from the following California counties have not been received: Del Norte, Riverside, San 
Mateo, and Ventura. In these counties in 1930 about 224,600 narcissus bulbs of the polyanthus types and 
381,600 of the daffodil types were inspected. The California figures are in part corrected from the mimeo- 
graphed edition of this circular. 
3 In addition to the reinspection in Illinois of 70,000 bulbs from another State and the treatment of 30,000 
of them for greater and lesser bulb flies. 
i The Louisiana reports do not distinguish between the polyanthus and the daffodil types; in this table 
they are all listed as polyanthus for that State. 
