1935] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS H 
January 14, 19?>.~). 
NARCISSUS BULB QUARANTINE REVOKED 
Secretary Wallace announced today that domestic quarantine no. 02, issued 
July 3, 1926, to prevent the interstate spread of certain injurious bulb pests, 
will be revoked, effective April 1, 1935. 
Following the restrictions on the importation of narcissus bulbs, which 
were placed in effect in January 1920 for the purpose of preventing the fur- 
ther introduction of certain foreign bulb pests, it was deemed advisable to 
establish a domestic narcissus bulb quarantine to prevent the further (Ms- 
semination of these pests, namely, the bulb eelworm, the greater bulb fly, and 
the lesser bulb fly, to areas not then known to be infested ; and to prevent 
reintroduction into areas in which attempts were being made to effect eradi- 
cation. This quarantine became effective in July 1920 and was amended in 
June 1932 to eliminate the lesser bulb fly, which had proved to be of secondary 
importance as a pest of narcissus bulbs. 
Attempts at general eradication have not been successful, the pests occurring 
year after year in most areas where such attempts have been made. Further- 
more, both the eelworm and the greater bulb fly have become more widespread, 
now being established in commercial narcissus-bulb plantings in many States 
in addition to the ones in which they were known to occur at the time the 
quarantine was established. 
These pests attack various native hosts other than narcissus bulbs, the 
bulb eelworm having been determined in over 50 native plants — both culti- 
vated and wild — which were submitted to the United States Department of 
Agriculture for examination from various localities in 32 different States. 
In view of the now known wide distribution in the United States of the 
bulb eelworm and the greater bulb fly, and of the wide range of hosts attacked, 
especially by the eelworm, thus making their eradication apparently imprac- 
ticable, as well as the wide occurrence of certain other pests of narcissus 
bulbs, it is felt that the Federal quarantine regulations cannot longer serve 
the purpose for which they were originally intended, and their continuance 
therefore is not only no longer justifiable but, since this problem is now one 
best adapted to State control, the existence of the type of Federal quarantine 
: emulations now in force tends to obstruct effective State action. 
The removal of this quarantine leaves to interested States freedom of action 
in the establishment of such State restrictions as they may deem advisable. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO NURSERY STOCK, PLANT, AND 
SEED QUARANTINE (NO. 37) 
MODIFICATION OF NURSERY STOCK, PLANT, AND SEED QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
This revision of regulation 3 of the regulations supplemental to Notice of 
Quarantine No. 37 makes, provision for the entry of Narcissus (daffodils, jon- 
quils, etc.), on and after December 15, 1936, without limitation as to quantity 
or use. As the importation of elm seeds from Europe is now prohibited by 
Quarantine No. 70, on the Dutch elm disease, reference to elm seeds is omitted 
from this regulation. 
In regulation 7 provision is made for the use of sterilized or otherwise safe- 
guarded soil as packing for nuts and seeds as well as for bulbs and corms. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
