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Sweet potato and j/aw.— Quarantine No. 29: Prohibits the importation for any 

 purpose of any variety of sweet potatoes or yams {Ipomoea batatas and Dioscorea spp.) 

 trom all foreign countries and localities, on account of the sweet potato weevils {Cylas 

 epp.) and the sweet potato scarabee (Euscepes halatae). 



lianana /)/<(7!is.— Quarantine No. 31: Prohibits the importation for any purpose of 

 any species or variety of banana plants (Afitsa spp.), or portions thereof, from all 

 foreign countries and' localities, on account of the banana root borer {Cosmopolites 

 sordid) is). 



Bamboo. — Quarantine No. 34: Prohibits the importation for any purpose of a,ny 

 variety of bamboo seed, plants, or cuttings thereof capable of propagation, including 

 all genera and species of the tribe Bambuseae. from all foreign countries and localities, 

 on account of dangerous plant diseases, including the bamboo smut ( Ustihu/o shiraiana ). 

 This quarantine order does not apply to bamboo timber consisting of the mature dried 

 culms or canes which are imported for fishing rods, furniture making, or other purposes, 

 or to any kind of article manufactured from bamboo, or to bamboo shoots cooked or 

 otherwise preser^■ed. 



Nursery stock, plants, and seeds. — Quarantine No. 37, as amended, with regulations 

 (effective on and after June 1. 1919): Prohibits the importation of nursery stock and 

 other plants and seeds from all foreign countries and localities, on account of certain 

 injurious insects and fungous diseases, except as provided in the regulations. Under 

 this (juarantine the following plants and plant products may be imported without 

 restriction: Fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products imported for medic- 

 inal, food, or manufacturing purposes, and field, vegetable, and flower seeds. The 

 entry of the folio-wing plants is permitted under permit: Lily bulbs, lily of the valley, 

 narcissus, hyacinths, tulips, and crocus; stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits; 

 rose stocks, including manetti, multiflora, brier rose, and rosa rugosa: nuts, including 

 palm seeds; 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. 



Flag smut and take-all. — Quarantine No. 39, with regulations (effective on and after 

 August 15, 1919): Prohibits the importation of seed or paddy rice from Australia, 

 India, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, and P.razil 

 on account of two dangerous plant diseases known as flag smut ( Urocystis tritici) and 

 take-all {Ophiobolus graminis). Wlieat. 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. 



European corn borer. — Quarantine No. 41, as amended, with regulations: Prohibits 

 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, broom corn, 

 sweet sorghums, ^ain sorghums, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, sugar cane, pearl millet, 

 napier grass, teosmte and Job's tears, from all foreign countries and localities, except 

 as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, on account of tne 

 European com borer {Pyrausta nubilalis) and other dangerous insects and plant 

 diseases. 



Mexican corn. — Quarantine No. 42, with regulations: Prohibits the importation 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 cotton seed 

 more or less infested with the pink bollworm. 



Stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds ofj'ruits. — Quarantine No. 44: Prohibits the impor- 

 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 inju- 

 rious insect pests, including the oriental fruit moth, the pear fruit borer, the apple 

 moth, etc. 



OTHER RESTBICTIVR ORDERS. 



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

 States was specidcally provided for in the plaiit-()uarantine 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: 



Nursery stock. — The conditions governing the entry of nm-sery stock and other 

 plants and seeds from all foreign countries and localities are indicated above under 



Foreign Quarantines." (See Quarantine No. 37.) 



