April, ’23] 
HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION NOTES 
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ported on December 21 the finding of sixty beetle larvae among the roots of four 
plants, part of a consignment from Japan. 
Mr. A. G. Webb, in charge of the work of the Federal Horticultural Board at 
Seattle, Washington, has been temporarily transferred to Washington, D. C., to assist 
in the inspection of plants introduced under special permit. 
Mr. W. B. Wood during the month of February inspected the plants for distri¬ 
bution at the field stations of the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction at 
Savannah, Ga., and Brooksville and Miama, Fla. 
Mr. E. C. Cotton, who for several years has been chief of the State of Ohio De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, resigned on February 15, 1923. 
He has been succeeded by Mr. Richard Faxon. 
Dr. W. M. Mann of the Bureau of Entomology is making a special investigation 
of the fruit fly situation in Mexico for the Federal Horticultural Board. He left 
Washington early in January and entered Mexico at Nogales, Arizona. 
The West Indian Fruit Fly, Anastrepha frater cuius Weid., was intercepted by 
Messrs. E. Kostal and J. W. O’Brien, inspectors at the port of New York City, in 
mangos from Jamaica on ten occasions during the months of January and February. 
Mr. Clyde P. Trotter, who has had about two yeais’ experience in the inspection 
work on the Mexican border, as well as about eight months’ experience in maritime 
inspection work in New Orleans, La., was recently transferred to Galveston, Texas, 
to take charge of the work of the Federal Horticultural Board at that port. 
Mr. R. D. Kennedy, Inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington, 
D. C., recently collected what appears to be Aspidiotus cryptoxanthus Ckll., on walnut 
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cuttings, and Lepidosaphes flava var. hawaiiensis (Mask.) on chestnut cuttings from 
Shantung, China. Neither of these Coccids are known to occur in the United States. 
Egg masses of the gipsy moth, Porthetria dispar L., were intercepted during the 
month of January by Mr. Max Kisliuk, Jr., in charge of the Board’s activities at 
Philadelphia, in cracks and openings of sheet cork which arrived from Bordeaux, 
France. This is a very fortunate interception and indicates another avenue for 
the entry of this pest. 
The State of California Department of Agriculture has recently issued Quarantine 
Order No. 41 which relates to Citrus White Flies. This Order supersedes Quarantine 
Orders Nos. 15, 18 and 21, and is applicable to the States of North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisana and Texas. Copies of 
this Order should be in the possession of the inspectors of the states enumerated. 
Mr. Heber J. Webb, Crops and Pests Inspector of Utah, reports that Easter lily 
bulbs, which were imported from Japan in November, 1922, are now showing serious 
injury as a result of the presence of Rhizoglyphus hyacinthi Boisd. He reports that 
about thirty per cent of the bulbs failed to grow, and many of the seventy per 
cent, which grew produced inferior plants which were worthless from a commercial 
standpoint. 
Inspector Ryan of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri¬ 
culture, has continued his investigations on the possibility of spreading the European 
Corn Borer in shipments of live stock. He found that corn on the cob was often fed 
to hogs en route to the stock yards. On arrival at Toronto the cars were cleaned, 
and manure sold to a contractor. The latter shipped the manure to different points. 
