60 8IXTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



United States Department of Agriculture, Amendment No. 2 to Regulations 

 Supplemental to Notiee of Quarantine No^ 37 



Under autliority conferrecl by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 

 (37 Stat., 315), It is ordered that regulation 14 of the rules and regulations sup- 

 plemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 37, Governing the Importation of Nursery 

 Stock and Other Plauts and Seeds into the United States, effective June 1, 1919 

 be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : 



Regulation 14. Special Permits for Importation in Limited Quantities of 

 Prohibited Stock. Application may be made to the Secretary of Agriculture for 

 special permits for the importation. in limited quantities and under safeguards 

 to be prescribed in such permits, of nursery stock and other plants and seeds not 

 covered by the preceding regulations. for the purpose of keeping the country sup- 

 plied with new varieties and necessary propagating stock ; provided, that this 

 shall not apply to nursery stock and other plants and seeds covered by special 

 quarantines and other restrictive orders now in force, nor to such as may here- 

 after be made the subject of special quarantines. A list of nursery stock and 

 other plants and seeds covered by special quarantines and other restrictive Orders 

 now in force is given in Appendix A of these regulations. 



Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of March, 1919. 



Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



D. F. HOUSTON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



United States Department of Agriculture, Quarantine on Account of Black Stern 



Bust, Notice of Quarantine No. 38 



The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notiee is 

 hereby given, that the common barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and its horticultural 

 varieties, as well as other species of Berberis and Mahonia, are capable of 

 harboring the black stem rust of wheat, oats, liarley, rye and many wild and 

 cultivated grasses. Through the Cooperation of the Department of Agriculture 

 with State officials, local organizations and individuals, susceptible species of 

 barberry and Mahonia have been very largely eradicated from the States of 

 Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, 

 Montana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Wyoming and Colorado. 



Now, therefore, I, David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, under the 

 authority conferred by Section 8 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 

 (37 Stat, 315), as amended by the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 

 Stat., 1134, 1165), do hereby quarantine, effective May 1, 1919, the States of 

 Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 

 Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, 

 Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North 

 Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina. Ten- 

 nessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and the 

 District of Columbia, and by this Notice of Quarantine No. 38 do order that no 

 plants of the following species. Berberis aethensis. B. altaica, B. amurensis, B. 

 aristata, B. asiatica, B. atropurpurea, B. brachybotrys, B. brevipauiculata, B. 

 buxifolia, B. canadensis, B. caroliniana (Carolina), B. coriaria, B. cretica, B. 

 declinatum, B. fendleri, B. fischeri, B. fremontii, B. Heteropoda, B. ilicifolia, B. 

 integerrima, B. laciflora, B. lycium, B. macrophylla, B. neapalensis, B. neubertii, 

 B. siberica, B. sieboldii. B. sinensis, B. trifoliolata, B. umbellata, B. vulgaris, 

 including its subspecies and horticultural varieties. Mahonia aquifolium, M. 

 diversifolia. M. glauca and M. repens. shall be moved or allowed to move Inter- 

 state to points outside of the quarantined area. 



