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5. Importation of Prohibited Articles. — Violations of this kind 

 can only be checked by state inspection. They may be accomplished 

 by false labeling or through the ignorance of customs officials regarding 

 prohibited plants. 



6. Entry of Nursery Stock under False Designation to 

 Escape the Requirements of Permit and Notification. — Two or 

 three instances have come to our notice where nursery stock has been 

 designated as bulbs or herbaceous plants, apparently to avoid by this 

 means the requirements as to permit and subsequent notifications. 

 Fortunately, suspicions were aroused in these instances, with the result 

 that violations of this kind will probably not be attempted again by 

 these particular individuals. The only means of checking up against 

 fraud of this sort is to make occasional inspection of imported bulbs 

 and other herbaceous plants. This duty naturally falls to the state 

 inspectors. 



In conclusion, it may be said that the control of imported nursery 

 stock is rapidly working out in a thoroughly satisfactory manner in so 

 far as the proper labeling and certification and other conditions of 

 €ntry are concerned. The real utility of the Act, as it relates to 

 imported nursery stock, must, however, finally depend on the character 

 of the inspection given such stock by the several state inspectors. 

 The Department of Agriculture will make every effort to encourage 

 and aid the different states in getting proper legislation and funds to 

 carry out this work of inspection. A feature which should be made a 

 part of all state laws is the provision requiring the holding of all 

 imported nursery stock, if possible, in original packages until the state 

 inspector is on the ground to make his examinations. If not so held, 

 the law should at least require that such importations, if opened up, 

 should be heeled in or kept together in a fairly isolated place until 

 inspection by the state official is possible. 



The quarantine powers given in the Act, both foreign and domestic, 

 are the ones which will bring the greatest protection to this country, 

 and constitute the principal federal power of control giveain the Act. 

 Such quarantines, being entirely under federal supervision and enforced 

 by federal officers, present no divided responsibility, and should suc- 

 ceed if sufficient means for their enforcement is provided by Congress. 



APPENDIX: POST OFFICE ORDERS IN RELATION TO 

 NURSERY STOCK 



The following are the orders recently issued by the Post Office 

 Department in relation to the Federal Plant Quarantine Act and the 

 several quarantines promulgated thereunder. 



