138 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



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

 with insect or insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupae, 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, distriliution, or trans- 

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

 water and allowing 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 dis- 

 infected 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 solution 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 bA' 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 dis- 

 infected 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 cyanide 

 of potassium shall be placed in an earthenware 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 re- 

 mained 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 by the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection, and 

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

 the quarantine officer of said Board, or a duly commissioned quarantine 

 giiardian. for subsequent disinfeetinu. 



Rule 9. — All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds or scions imported or 

 brought into the State shall be inspected upon arrival at the quarantine 

 station in the district of final destination, and if found infected with any 

 injurious insects or diseases which can not be destroyed by the remedies 

 required in rules 7 and 8 of these regulations, are hereby prohibited from 

 being planted or offered for sale, gift, or distribution, and shall be pro- 

 ceeded against as a nuisance. 



Rule 10. — If any person or persons having in their possession trees, 

 plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits infected with an insect 

 or insects, or with any fungi, blight or other disease or diseases injurious 

 to fruit trees, or to any other trees or plants, shall refuse or neglect to 

 disinfect the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or 

 pits as is required by Rules 7 and 8 of these regulations, after having been 

 notified to do so by a member of the State Board of Horticulture, the 

 quarantine officer of said Board, or a duly commissioned quarantine guard- 

 ian, the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits 

 shall be declared a public nuisance, and shall be proceeded against as pro- 

 vided by law. 



Rule 11 Animals known as flying fox, Australian or English wild rab- 

 bits, or other animals or birds detrimental to fruit or fruit trees, plants. 



