Report of State Board of Horticulture. 13 



antine station in the district of ultimate destination; or from any point 

 within the state to any other point thei'ein, 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 hoirever, that 

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

 notice, he or they shall not be requii^ed to hold such shipments further, 

 without directions from such officer. 



Bide 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 grown in a district where the "peach yellows" or the 

 "peach rosette" are known to exist, are hereby prohibited from being im- 

 ported into or planted or offered for sale, gift, or distribution within the 

 State of Oreofon. 



Hide ^— All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits 

 arriving from any foreign country found infested with insect pests or their 

 eggs, larvae or pupse or with fungi, or other disease or diseases hitherto un- 

 known in this state, are hereby prohibited from landing. 



litdc a— Fruit of any kind grown in any foreign country, or in any of the 

 states or territories, found infested with any insect or insects, or with any 

 fungi, blight, or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit or fruit ti'ees, or 

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

 gift, or distribution within the state. 



Ride 6 — Any boxes, packages, packing material, and the like, infested 

 by insect or insects, or their eggs, larvtt or pupte, 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, aud liable to spread contagion, are hereby pro- 

 hibited from being offered for sale, gift, distribution, or transporation until 

 said material has been disinfected by dipping it in boiling water and allow- 

 ing it to remain in said boiling water not less than two minutes; such boil- 

 ing water used as such disinfectant to contain, in solution, one pound of con- 

 centrated potash to each and every ten gallons of water. 



Ride 7— All trees, plants, grafts, cuttings, buds, or scions may be disin- 

 fected by dipping in a solution of three fourths of a pound of whale-oil soap 

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

 tion shall be kept at a temperature of one hundred to one hundred and 

 fifteen degi-ees. Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall re- 

 main 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 by the quaran- 

 tine officer of the State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissioned quar- 

 antine guardian, for further disinfection. 



Ride S—Al] trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions may be disin- 

 fected 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 one hundred cubic feet of space therein, 



