APPENDIX. 
These regulations with regard to the importation of coffee 
have been purposely made stringent because since coffee growing 
was started no pest or disease from any other part of the world 
has been introduced and, as we have a considerable number of 
indigenous pests and diseases which depreciate the yield and 
which in some instances are difficult to control, every measure 
possible must be taken to prevent the introduction of others. 
(I) Cotton seed except in transit for re-export. Permission, 
however, to import cotton seed will be granted if: — 
(1) Imported into the Colony for use therein through 
Kilindini, Mombasa, or any other port or place of entry 
as may be approved by the Director of Agriculture on 
the application of the importer. 
2) The consignment thereof is accompanied by a certificate 
under the seal of the Department of Agriculture of the 
country from which it is consigned to the effect that it 
has been fumigated within one month before consign- 
ment to the Colony or that it is free from pest or 
disease. 
All cotton seed unaccompanied by a certificate as 
specified in sub-clause (2) hereof shall be delivered by 
the importer or his agent to an inspector for fumigation 
at the port or place of entry (or elsewhere as may be 
directed by the Director of Agriculture) and shall be 
removed by the importer or his agent immediately after 
such fumigation. 
Any cotton seed imported in contravention of this clause 
may be detained and destroyed or otherwise dealt with 
as the Director of Agriculture may direct. 
Such, then, are the regulations governing the importation of 
plants and seeds into the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. 
To summarise briefly: 
1. Certain plants and seeds are prohibited entry, viz.: hemp 
narcotics. 
» Others, on account of their liability to carry certain serious 
diseases, which at present are not known to occur here, are 
allowed in only under permit from the Department of 
Agriculture. 
3. Others not included in the above two categories should 
preferably be obtained from reputable sources of supply. 
t. All consignments, whether admitted by permit or not, or 
whether accompanied by a certificate or not are still liable 
to inspection, treatment or destruction. 
The regulations may, at first sight, seem cumbersome or even 
redundant, but since Plant Import Inspection was inaugurated in 
1908, as far as we are aware at present, no insect pest has been 
introduced and only two diseases, viz., mosaic on sugar cane and die 
back of apples and pears. 
Before 1908, two insect pests have been introduced, namely, 
Red Scale and Cottony Cushion Scale on citrus. 
296