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the State to any point therein, until such trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, 

 buds. or scions have been duly inspected, and, if required, disinfected as 

 hereinbefore provided; and all such shipments must be accompanied by 

 the proper certificate of the inspecting officer; provided. howe%-er. that 

 after such persons or Company have given the proper officer four days' 

 notice, he or they shall not be required to hold such shipments further, 

 without the direction from such officer. 



Rule 3. — All peach, nectarine, apricot. plum, or almond trees, and all 

 other trees budded or grafted upon peach Stocks or roots, all peach or 

 other pits. and all peach, nectarine. apricot, plum. or almond cuttings, 

 buds, or scions, raised or gro'^'n in a district where the "peach yellows" 

 or the "peach rosette" are known to exist, are hereby prohibited from 

 being imported into or planted or offered for sale. gift, or distribution 

 w-ithin the State of Oregon. 



Rule 4. — All trees. plants. cuttings, grafts. buds. scions, seeds, or pits 

 arriving from any foreign country found infected v,ith insect pests or 

 their eggs, larvae, or pupas, or with fungi, or other disease or diseases 

 hitherto unknown in this State, are hereby prohibited from landing. 



Rule 5. — Fruit of any kind grown in any foreign country, or in any of 

 the States or territories, found infected with any insect or insects. or with 

 any fungi, blight or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit or fruit 

 trees, or to other trees or plants, is hereby prohibited from being offered 

 for sale. gift, or distribution within the State. 



Rule 6. — Any boxes, packages. packing material. and the like, infected 

 with insect or insects, or their eggs. larvje or pupse. or by any fungi, 

 blight, or other disease or diseases known to be injurious to fruit or to 

 fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, and liable to spread contagion, are 

 hereby prohibited from being offered for sale. gift. distribution, or trans- 

 portation until said material has been disinfected by dipping it in boiling 

 water and allowingr it to remain in said boiling water not less than two 

 minutes; such boiling water used as such disinfectant to contain, in Solu- 

 tion, one pound of concentrated potash to each and every ten gallons of 

 water. 



Rule 7. — All trees. plants, grafts, cuttings. buds. or scions may be 

 disinfected by dipping in a Solution of three-fourths of a pound of whale- 

 oil soap (80 "per cent) to each and every gallon of water; said whale-oil 

 soap Solution shall be kept at a temperature of 100 to 150 degrees. Said 

 trees, plants. cuttings, grafts, buds. or scions shall remain in said Solu- 

 tion not less than two minutes. After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, 

 buds, or scions have been disinfected, they shall remain in quarantine 

 fourteen days unless otherwise directed by the inspecting officer. for 

 subsequent inspection. and if deemed necessary by the quarantine officer 

 of the State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissioned quarantine 

 guardian, for further disinfection. 



Rule 8. — All trees. plants, cuttings. grafts, buds, or scions may be 

 disinfected by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as follows: Said 

 trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall be covered with an air- 

 tight tent or box, and for each and every 100 cubic feet of space therein 

 one ounce of (C. P.) Cyanide of potassium (98 per cent), one fluid ounce 

 of sulphuric acid. and two fluid ounces of water shall be used. The Cyan- 

 ide of potassium shall be placed in an eai'thenware vessel, the water 

 poured over the said Cyanide of potassium, afterward adding the sulphuric 

 acid, and the tent or box to be immediately closed tightly, and allowed to 

 remain closed for not less than forty minutes. After said trees, plants, 

 cuttings. grafts. or scions have been treated with hydrocyanic acid gas as 

 above directed, they shall remain in quarantine for fourteen days. unless 

 otherwise directed Isy the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection. and 

 if deemed necessary* by a member of the State Board of Horticulture, or 



