BOARD OF HORTICULTURE 49 



United States Department of Agriculture, Notiee of Quarantine No. 37, 



With Regiilations 



Quarautine No. 37 witli ref^ulations, governing the entry of uursery stock 

 and other plants and seeds, supersede.s, on and after June 1, 191Ü. the regula- 

 tious uow in force governing tlie importation of nursery stock, and brings under 

 restrictious all other plants and plant products for or capable of propagation. 



Regulation 2 under this quarantine provides that fruits, vegetables, cereals 

 and other plant products for or capable of propagation, intended for medicinal, 

 food or manufacturing purposes and field, vegetable and flower seeds, may be 

 imported without perniit or other restrictious. 



Regulation 3 euumerates the classes of plants which may be imported for 

 propagation under permit and on compliance with the other requirements of 

 the regulations. These classes comprise certain bulbs. rose Stocks, fruit Stocks, 

 iucluding cuttings. scions and buds. and seeds of uut, fruit, forest and other 

 ornamental and shade trees and of hardy perennial ornamental slirubs. The 

 entry of these classes of uursery stock and other plants and seeds is represented 

 by experts to be essential to the floriculture and horticulture of this country 

 under existiug conditious. 



The entry of plants or classes of plants or plant products for or capable of 

 propagation, not specifically provided for in regulations 2 and 3, from auy 

 foreign locality or country is restricted to importations by the United States 

 States Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes. 



This quarantine does not affect the Status of nursery stock and other plants 

 and seeds covered by special quarantine and other restrictive Orders now In force. 



The regulations governing the entry of the classes of plants listed in regula- 

 tion 3 are similar to those hitherto in force and take into account the Classifica- 

 tion of countries into (1) those maintaining inspection and certification of 

 nursery stock in accordance with the requirements of the plant quarantine act. 

 and (2) countries which have not made Provision for such compliance with the 

 act. (See Appendix C.) 



C. L. MARLATT, 

 Chairman, Federal Horticultural Board. 



United States Department of Agriculture, Notice of Quarantine No. 37 



The fact has been determined I)y the Secretary of Agriculture, and notiee is 

 hereby given, that there exists in Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central and 

 South America, and other foreign countries and localities, certain injurious 

 insects and fungous diseases new to and not heretofore widely distributed within 

 and throughout the United States, which affect and are carried by nursery stock 

 and other plants and seeds, the words "nursery stock and other plants and 

 seeds" iucluding, wherever used in this notiee and the rules and regulations 

 supplemental hereto, field grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, 

 grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or 

 shrubs, also field. vegetal)le and flower seeds, I)edding plants, and other 

 herbaceous plants, bull)s and roots, and other plants and plant products for, or 

 capable of. propagation. 



Now, therefore, I, D. F. Houston, Seci-etary of Agriculture. under the authority 

 conferred by the Act of Congress approved August 20, 1912 (37 Stat., 315), do 

 hereby declare that it is necessary, in order to prevent the further introduction 

 into the United States of injurious insect pests and fungous diseases, to forbid, 

 except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental hereto, the importa- 

 tion into the United States of nursery stock and other plants and seeds from the 

 foreign countries and localities named and from any other foreign locality or 

 country. 



