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(2) Stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits for propagation. 



(3) Rose stocks for propagation, including Manetti, Multiflora, brier Rose, 

 and Rosa Rugosa. 



'4) Nuts, including palm seeds, for propagation. 



' 5) Seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade trees, seeds of deciduous 

 and evergreen ornamental shrubs, and seeds of hardy perennial plants. 



Provision is also made for the issuance of special permits under safeguards 

 to be prescribed in such permits for the entry in limited quantities of nursery 

 stock and other plants and seeds not covered in the preceding lists for the 

 purpose of keeping the country supplied with new varieties and necessary 

 propagating stock. 



B'lay smut and take-all. — Quarantine No. 39, with regulations : Prohibits the 

 importation of seed or paddy rice from Australia, India, Japan, Italy, France, 

 Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, and Brazil on account of two dan- 

 gerous plant diseases known as flag smut (Urocystis tritici) and take-all 

 (Ophiobolns graminis). Wheat, oats, barley, and rye may be imported from 

 the countries named only under permit and upon compliance with the conditions 

 prescribed in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Evropean corn borer. — Quarantine No. 41, with regulations, revised : Pro- 

 hibits the importation of the stalk and all other parts, whether used for packing 

 or other purposes, in the raw or unmanufactured state, of Indian corn or maize, 

 bi-oom corn, sweet sorghums, grain sorghums, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, sugar 

 cane, pearl millet, uapier grass, teosinte, and Job's tears, from all foreign 

 countries and localities, except as provided in the rules and regulations sup- 

 plemental thereto, on account of the European corn borer {Pyrausta nubilalis) 

 and other dangerous insects and plant diseases. 



Mexican corn. — Quarantine No. 42, with regulations: Prohibits the importa- 

 tion of Indian corn or maize from Mexico, except as provided in the rules and 

 regulations supplemental thereto, on account of the contamination of such corn 

 with cottonseed more or less infested with the pink bollworm. 



Stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits. — Quarantine No. 44 : Prohibits the 

 impoi-tation of stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits from Asia, Japan, 

 Philippine Islands, and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand) on 

 account of dangerous plant diseases, including Japanese apple cankers, blister 

 blight, and rusts, and injurious insect pests, including the oriental fruit moth, 

 the pear fruit borer, the apple moth, etc. 



Citrus black fly. — Quarantine No. 49, witli regulations: Prohibits the impor- 

 tation of fruits and vegetables and of plants or portions of plants used as 

 packing material in connection with shipments of such fruits and vegetables, 

 or otherwise, fi'om Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Canal Zone, Costa Rica. India, 

 Philippine Islands, Ceylon, and Java, except as provided in the rules and 

 regulations supplemental thereto, on account of the citrus black fly (Aleuro- 

 canthus icoglumi). 



Seed or paddy rice. — Quarantine No. 55: Prohibits the importation of seed 

 or paddy rice from all foreign countries and localities on account of injurious 

 fungous diseases of rice, including downy mildew (Sclerospora macrocarpa), 

 leaf-smut {Entyloma oryzae), blight {Oospora oryztorum), and glume blotch 

 (Melanamma glumaruni), as well as dangerous insect pests, except that such 

 seed or paddy rice may be imported from the Republic of Mexico upon com- 

 pliance with the conditions prescribed in the rules and regulations supple- 

 mental thereto. This quarantine is supplemental to Quarantine No. 39. 



Fruits and vegetables. — Quarantine No. 56: Prohibits the importation of 

 fruits and vegetables not already the suliject of special quarantines or other 

 restrictive orders, and of plants or portions of plants used as packing material 

 in connection with shipments of such fruits and vegetables, from all foreign 

 countries and localities other than the Dominion of Canada, except as pro- 

 vided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, on account of inju- 

 rious insects, including fruit and melon flies (Trypetidae). Includes and 

 supersedes Quarantine No. 49 on account of the citrus black fly. 



OTHER RESTRICTIVE ORDERS. 



The regulation of the entry of nursery stock from foreign countries into the 

 United States was specifically provided for in the plant quarantine act. The 

 act further provides for the similar regulation of any other class of plants or 

 plant products when the need therefor shall be determined. The entry of the 

 plants and plant products listed below has been brought under such regulation : 



