BOARD OF HORTICULTURE 73 



Regulation 9. Shipments by United States Department of Agriculture. 



This quarantine shall not apply to the movement by the United States De- 

 pai-tment of Agriculture of the products named for experimental or scientific 

 purposes. 



Tliis notice of quarantine amends and siipersedes notice of quarantine No. 

 86, promulsrated Septemlier 25. 1918, and shall be in force until further notice. 



Done in the District of Columbia this 15th day of March, 1920. 



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



[Seal] E. T. MEREDITH, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Penalties. The plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat., 315) , provides 

 that any person wlio shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or who shall 

 forge, counterfeit, alter, deface or destroy any certificate provided for in this 

 act or in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding $500 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both such fine and 

 imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE — OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 



Federal Horticultural Board 



QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH 



NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 33, TVITH REGULATIONS (REVISED) 



(Effective on and after July 1, 1919) 



GIPST MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH 



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

 hereby given, that two injurious insects — the gipsy moth (Porthetria dispar) 

 and the brown-tail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea)— new to and not heretofore 

 widely distributed within and throughout the United States, exist in parts of 

 the followiiig States, to wit : Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island and Connecticut. 



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

 conferred by Section 8 of the plant quarantine act approved August 20, 1912 

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

 Stat., 1134. 1165), do hereby quarantine the towns and territory hereinafter 

 described as infested by the brown-tail moth, and the towns and territory here- 

 inafter described as infested by the gipsy moth, and by this notice of quarantine 

 No. 33, revised, do order that (1) coniferous trees, such as spruce, fir, hemlock, 

 pine, juniper (cedar), and arbor-vitae (white cedar), known and described 

 as "Christmas trees," and parts thereof, and decorative plants, such as holly 

 and laurel, known and described as "Christmas greens or greenery" ; (2) forest- 

 plant products. including logs. tanbark, posts, poles. railroad ties. cordwood and 

 luraber ; (3) field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and other 

 Inlauts and plant products for planting or propagation, excepting fruit pits, seeds 

 of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, field, vegetable and flower seeds, 

 l^edding plants, and other herbaceous plants and roots ; and (4) stone or quarry 

 products, shall not be moved or allowed to move Interstate in manner or method 

 or under conditions other than those prescribed in the rules and regulations 

 hereinafter made and amendments thereto. 



The following towns and all the territory between said towns and the At- 

 lantic Ocean are quarantined for the brown-tail moth, namely : Houlton, Lud- 

 low, New Limerick, Oakfield, Dyer Brook, Crystal, Patton, Staceyville, II Range 



