April, ’24] 
NOTES ON HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION 
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Notes on Horticultural Inspection 
Mr. Chester A. Davis, Plant Quarantine Inspector at Philadelphia, has been 
transferred to Boston, reporting for duty on March 10. 
Mr. C. W. Stockwell of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory at Riverton, N. J., was 
called to Washington for a conference on March 1. 
A live Alfalfa Weevil, Phytonomus posticus (Gyll.), was taken recently in packing 
material from a registered package coming from Germany, by Mr. George Compere in 
San Francisco. 
Mr. William W. Chapman, a recent graduate of the Mississippi State Agricultural 
and Mechanical College, has been appointed to the position of Plant Quarantine 
Inspector, with headquarters at Philadelphia. 
Dr. Norman Perrine of the Washington force has just returned from a trip to 
Boston, where he was making tests of the efficiency of gas generating apparatus 
used in cotton fumigation. 
Mr. J. A. Stevenson has returned from Cuba, where he made an investigation of the 
potato disease on the Island to determine the advisability of permitting the ship¬ 
ment of potatoes to the United States. 
Mr. William V. Reed, formerly State Entomologist of Georgia, has been appointed 
to the position of Plant Quarantine Inspector with headquarters at New Orleans, La. 
He took up the work at that Station on March 10. 
Mr. A. G. Albrecht, a Plant Quarantine Inspector of the Federal Horticultural 
Board, has been transferred from New Orleans to Philadelphia to take up the duties 
formerly performed by Mr. Chester A. Davis, who was transferred to Boston. 
The Spiny Citrus White Fly, Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby, has been intercepted on 
Spice leaves from Nassau, Bahamas, and on Citrus from Cuba. The latter inter¬ 
ception was made at Jacksonville in a registered mail package destined for Ashville, 
N. C. 
Mr. Thomas J. Baker, formerly a Quarantine Inspector of the State of Florida 
and recently Plant Quarantine Inspector for the Federal Horticultural Board at 
New Orleans, has been placed in charge of the inspection work at Astoria, Oregon 
Messrs. J. A. Stevenson and W. T. Owrey of the Washington office recently com¬ 
pleted an inspection trip to points in Florida and Georgia. They visited several 
field stations of the Bureau of Plant Industry and inspected all plants intended for 
distribution. 
A species of Balaninus has been frequently taken at the Inspection House in 
shipments of Chestnuts and Castanopsis sp., arriving from China. This insect is 
similar in appearance to the smaller Chestnut Weevil, which is common in this 
country. 
Mr. William F. Freeman, who has been in charge of the port of Astoria, Oregon, 
has been transferred to New York. Mr Freeman will have direct charge of the in¬ 
spection work in New York City under the supervision of Mr. Shaw. 
Mr. Alva C. Hill has been appointed to the position of Plant Quarantine Inspector 
