SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



Rules and Regulations Governing (1) Entry for Immediate Export, (2) Entry 

 for Immediate Transportation and Exportation in Bond, and (3) Safeguarding 

 the Arrival at a Port Where Entry or Landing Is Not Intended of Prohibited 

 Plants and Plant Products. 



Under authority conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture by Section 9 of the 

 Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat, 315), and in order to meet the 

 occasional exigencies of commerce, it is ordered that the quarantines now in force 

 prohibiting the entry from foreign countries into the United States of certain 

 plants and plant products be, and the same are hereby, modified to permit the 

 entry of such plants and plant products, either for immediate export or for imme- 

 diate transportation and exportation in bond, under such restrictions as shall 

 conserve the interests of the United States. 



Entry for immediate export and for immediate transportation and exporta- 

 tion in bond of such plants and plant products may be made in accordance with 

 the rules and regulations herewith promulgated. 



Provision is also made in these regulations for the safeguarding of such pro- 

 hibited or restricted plants or plant products arriving at a port or within the 

 territorial waters of the United States even though no entry or landing of such 

 plants or plant products is intended. 



Plants and Plant Products Now Under QuarantiJie and Subject to These Regu- 

 lations.* (a) Irish potatoes from Newfoundland ; the Islands of St. Pierre and 

 Miquelon; Great Britain, including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland ; 

 Germany ; and Austria-Hungary ; on account of the disease known as potato wart. 

 There are, however, no federal restrictions on the importation of potatoes into 

 the Territories of Hawaii and Porto Rico. (Quarantine No. 3.) 



(b) Mexican fruits : Oranges, sweet limes, grapefruit, mangoes, achras, sap- 

 otes, peaches, guavas and plums from the Republic of Mexico, on account of the 

 Mexican fruit fly. (Quarantine No. 5, as amended.) 



(c) Five-leafed pines and all species and varieties of currant and gooseberry 

 plants (Ribes and Grossularia), from each and every country of Europe and Asia, 

 and from the Dominion of Canada and from Newfoundland, on account of the 

 white-pine blister rust. (Quarantine No. 7, as amended.) 



(d) Pines from all European countries and localities not already excluded 

 under the white-pine blister-rust quarantine, on account of the European pine- 

 shoot moth (Evetria buoliana). (Quarantine No. 20.) 



(e) Cotton seed (including seed cotton) and cottonseed hulls from any foreign 

 locality and country, excepting ouly the locality of the Imperial Valley, in the 

 State of Lower California, Mexico, on account of the pink bollworm. (Quarantine 

 No. 8, as amended.) 



(f) Seeds of avocado or alligator pear from Mexico and the countries of 

 Central America, on account of the avocado weevil. (Quarantine No. 12.) 



(g) Sugar cane from all foreign countries, on account of certain injurious 

 insects and fungous diseases affecting the sugar cane in such countries. There 

 are, however. no federal restrictions on the importation into the Territories of 

 Hawaii and Porto Rico of sugar cane. (Quarantine No. 15.) 



(h) Citrus nursery stock from all foreign localities and countries, on account 

 of the citrus canker and other dangerous citrus diseases. The term "citrus" as 

 used in this quarantine includes all plants belonging to the subfamily or tribe 

 Citratae. (Quarantine No. 19.) 



(i) Seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize (Zea mays L.). and 

 the closely related plants, including all species of Teosinte (Euchlaena), Job's 

 tears (Coix), Polytoca, Chionachne and Sclerachne, in the raw or unmanufactured 

 State, from Southeastern Asia (including India, Slam, Indo-China and China), 



* Information as to addltions to or changes in this list of plants and plant products 

 may be obtained on inquiry of the collectors of customs or the inspectors of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board, or directly from the Secretary of Agriculture. 



