February, '13] marlatt: federal plant quarantine 139 



TYPE OF LETTER SENT TO ALL POSTMASTERS OF OFFICES LIKELY 

 TO RECEIVE IMPORTED NURSERY STOCK 



division of foreign mails no. 246, 515 c. d. 



Post .Office Department 



Second Assistant Postmaster General 



Washington 



November 22, 1912. 

 The Postmaster, New York, N. Y. 



Sir: Your attention is called to the enclosed copy of a Notice to Postmasters 

 regarding the importation in the mails of nursery stock under the provisions of "The 

 Plant Quarantine Act" of August 20, 1912. 



A copy of the rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of Agriculture for carry- 

 ing out the Act in question is also enclosed herewith, together with a circular of infor- 

 mation to importers of nursery stock issued by the Federal Horticultural Board and 

 approved by the Secretary of Agricultm-e. These enclosures wiU enable you to 

 carry out the provisions of the Act so far as it affects mail importations, and will 

 also furnish you with information to answer inquiries which may be made. 



Please cause due notice of the same to be taken at your office, and advise me of 

 your having done so. 



Very respectfully, 



A. A. Fisher, 

 Acting Second Assistant Postmaster General. 

 Enclosures. 



The notice to postmasters referred to in the above quoted letter 

 follows : 



Nursery Stock From Abroad 



November 22, 1912. 

 Postmasters and other postal officials are informed that, under the provisions of 

 The Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, nursery stock, which includes all 

 field-gi"own florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits 

 and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant 

 products for propagation, except field, vegetable and flower seeds, bedding plants, 

 and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, ^and roots, may be imported into the United 

 States only under the conditions set forth in that Act and the rules and regulations 

 for its enforcement issued by the Secretary of Agriculture. All articles received in 

 the mails from abroad and containing or supposed to contain nursery stock must, 

 therefore, be submitted to customs officials for fulfilment of the formalities of entry 

 required by the Act and in the same manner as articles whose contents are dutiable 

 or supposed to be dutiable. 



A. A. Fisher, 

 Acting Second Assistant Postmaster General. 



