124 aNNTAI. REPORTS OF DEPABTMEUT OF A< ; RI ( T LT V RK, 1940 
Twenty-one carload- of Christmas trees, 3 carloads of plants, and 
2"<».i>44 plants arriving l>y truck were inspected. 
INSPECTION OF PLANT-INTROIH ( TION AM) PROPA(i ATI Mi (iAKDKNS 
Plan! material which is being propagated at plant-introduction 
gardens maintained by the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Soil 
Conservation Service is inspected at regular interval- for the pres- 
ence of plant pests. Plant material distributed from the plant- 
introduction gardens at Coconut Grove, Fla.. and Mandan. X. Dak., 
was inspected by State officials cooperating with this Bureau. The 
inspections at the plant-introduction garden at Chico, Calif., were 
handled jointly by an inspector of this Bureau and an entomologist 
from the California State Department of Agriculture. Material 
distributed from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Savannah, 
Ga., was examined by inspectors of the Bureau. A summary of these 
inspections appears in table lh\ 
Table 10. — Plants, hud sticks, cuttings, tubers, roots, and shipments of seeds 
examined for distribution from plant-introduction and propagating gardens, 
fiscal year Jf>. f f 
Garden 
Plants 
Shipments 
of seeds 
Bud sticks 
and 
cuttings 
Roots and 
tubers 
Bell, Md. . 
57,508 
3,8% 
10, 933 
5, 552 
188.084 
308,000 
6, 021 
107 
130 
63 
5 
1,280 
1. 595 
1.051 
352 
21.618 

75 
785 
Chico, Calif 
Coconut Grove, Fla 
Savannah. Ga 
Mandan, X. Dak 
Beltsville, Md.' . 
District of Columbia. 
8, 235 
4,761 
8,860- 
Total 
580,594 | 8.54G 
9, 039 
31,338 
1 These plants were grown and shipped by the Soil Conservation Service. 
INTERCEPTIONS OF PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED PLANTS AND PLANT PRODI CTS 
The inspection of ships, airplanes, vehicles, cargo, baggage, ship's 
stores and quarters, and foreign mail packages at the various mari- 
time and border ports of entry resulted in the interception of large 
quantities of prohibited and restricted plant material. Much of this 
material was infested with insects or infected with plant diseases 
of considerable economic importance. In classifying the intercep- 
tions, those made at bridges and crossings at the Mexican and ('ana 
dian border ports have been considered as having been taken from 
baggage. A record of the number of interception- of prohibited 
and restricted plant material appears in table 17. 
