Excerpt from List of Intercepted Plant Pests, 1954: List of Pests Recorded From July 1, 1953, Through June 30, 1954 as Intercepted In, On, or With Plants and Plant Products Entering United States TeritoryThis report, covering the forty-first year for which interception lists have been issued, summarizes the records of insect pests, plant pathogens, and certain other organisms found in, on, or with plant products (1) imported, (2) Offered for but refused entry, (3) held as ships' stores, etc., and hence not offered for entry through customs, (4) offered for entry for immediate transportation and exportation in bond, and (5) in domestic shipments between the American Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the mainland.Comprising this list are insects and plant diseases of known or potential plant quarantine significance to the United States. Many diseases of particular interest are included even though they are found of general or of limited distribution in the United States. The latter pathogens are the interceptions which are either (1) new to the country of origin, or (2) new to the host plant, or (3) are of such limited distribution in the United States that they are worthy of mention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.