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be called in Washington during the coming year. The following subject was selected 
for the Symposium at the Cincinnati meeting in 1923: “Methods of Protection and 
Defense Among Insects.” 
Horticultural Inspection Notes 
Messrs. G. S. Langford and P. D. Sanders have been appointed to fellowships in 
the State Horticultural Department, University of Maryland, and a portion of their 
time will be devoted to regulatory matters. 
Mr. L. R. Dorland, who formerly was in charge of the w T ork of the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board at Del Rio, Texas, has exchanged ports with Mr. H. M. Cely, who 
for the past two years has been in charge of the Board’s activities at Nogales, Arizona. 
Mr. E. I. Smith, a graduate of the University of West Virginia, was temporarily 
appointed as Plant Quarantine Inspector to assist in the examination of plants arriv¬ 
ing in Washington, D. C., under special perrmt during the months of December, 
January and February. 
Professor E. N. Cory, State Entomologist of Maryland, reports that as high as 
ninety-seven per cent, of the foreign bulbs which have been inspected in Maryland 
during the present shipping season were found to be infested with mites; and in 
many instances, soft rot was present. 
Inasmuch as plants bearing invalid certificates continue to arrive in the District 
of Columbia, it would appear that various state officials charged with the inspection 
of nurseries should take steps to prevent the further use of certificates of this type. 
A certificate dated “1912” was taken from a shipment arriving in Washington this 
season. 
Mr. A. C. Fleur}?', Quarantine Officer in Charge at San Francisco, California, re¬ 
ports that oranges purchased in Japan, found in passenger’s baggage arriving at that 
port ex. S. S. President Wilson in December were infected w T ith Citrus Canker. 
Interceptions of this kind forcibly emphasize the need of careful examination of 
passenger’s baggage, in cooperation with Customs officials, at ports of entry. 
In a recent letter, Mr. A. C. Brown reported the following interceptions by in¬ 
spectors of the State Plant Board of Florida: Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby on spice 
leaves from Nassau, Bahama Islands; Targionia hartii Ckll. on yams from Havana, 
Cuba and Barbados, British West Indies; Aspidiotus destructor Sign, on palm from 
Trinidad, British West Indies, and Sugar Apple from Cardenas, Cuba; and Anas- 
trepha fraterculus (Wied.) on Guavas from Havana, Cuba, arriving at Key West, 
Florida. 
A committee composed of two representatives from the American Phytopathological 
Society, and one from each of the following organizations—the American Association 
of Nurserymen, the American Society of Horticultural Science, and the Section on 
Horticultural Inspection—is being appointed for the purpose of making a thorough 
study of Crown Gall in its various phases, and also to arrange a program for a joint 
session of the organizations mentioned above at the Cincinnati meetings. The full 
personnel of this committee has not been appointed; however, Mr. H. F. Dietz, 
Assistant Entomologist, of Indiana, has been designated to represent the Section on 
Horticultural Inspection. 
