PRESENT STATUS OF THE WHITE-PINE BLISTER RUST. 19 



Section 12 provides for a Federal Horticultural Board consisting of 

 five niembers, not more than two of whom shall be appointed from 

 each of the Bureaus of Plant Industry, Entoinology, and Forest 

 Service. 



Section 13 appropriates $25,000 for carr\-ing out the provisions of 



the act. 



Section 14 makes the act effective on and after October 1, 1912. 



The permit system simply furnishes the Secretary of Agriculture 

 certain definite information about each shipment, which it is neces- 

 sary to have in order to hav^e the proper inspection made. The 

 foreign certificate of inspection is requii'od, not because it is of 

 value now, but because this requirement will lead to closer atten- 

 tion by foreign inspectors to the health of ])lants certified by them 

 and thus lead to a better class of stock being offered for entry. The 

 actual inspection of unportcd stock is left enthely to the proper State 

 officials, who are furnished full mformation concerning shipments of 

 nursery stock coming to their States. 



The most important feature of the bill is the quarantine power 

 given against dangerous new diseases and insects, whicli may be 

 enforced against any foreign country or locality or any State or 

 locality withm this country. 



The Federal Horticultural Board, which admmisters the provisions 

 of the act, has issued the following notice regarding white-pine blister 



rust: ' Mr~^ " 



NOTICE 0T>^ QUARANTINE NO. 1. 



(Issued pursuant to sec. 7 of the Plant Quarantine Act.) 



WHITE-PINE BLISTER RUST. 



United States Department op Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary, 

 j/ Washington, D. C, September 16, 1912. 



The fact has been determined by the Acting Secretary of Agriculture that a tree 

 disease known as White-Pine Blister Rust {Peridermium strobi Kleb.), new to and 

 not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United 

 States, exists in the following countries, viz. Great Britain, France, Belgium, Hol- 

 land, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and 

 Italy. 



Now, therefore, I, Willet M. Hays, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, under author- 

 ity conferred by section 7 of the act approved August 20, 1912, known as "the Plant 

 Quarantine Act," do hereby declare that it is necessary, in order to prevent the 

 introduction into the United States of the "WTiite-Pine Blister Rust, to forbid the 

 importation into the United States from the hereinbefore-named countries of the 

 following species and then- horticultural varieties, viz, white pine {Pinus strobus L.), 

 western white pine (Ptmts monticola Dougl.), sugar pine (Pmtts Za?n6ertiana Dougl.), 

 and stone or cembrian pine {PiniLS cembra L.). 

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