December, '12] SCIENTIFIC NOTES 491 



FEDERAL QUARANTINE NOTICE 



Gipsy and brown-tail moths. Under authority of the Plant Quarantine Act, 

 Acting Secretary of Agriculture, Willet M. Haj's has declared a quarantine for the 

 brown-tail moth against the following locaUties: All towns between the Atlantic 

 Ocean and Robbinston, Charlotte, Cooper, Plantation XIX, Wesley, Plantation 

 XXXI, Plantation XXX, Devereaux, Plantations XXVIII, XXXIII, and XXXII, 

 Milford, Alton, Bradford, Atkinson, Dover, Sangerville, Parkman, Wellington, Brigh- 

 ton, Solon, Embden, Anson, New Vineyard, Farmington, Temple, Wilton, Carthage, 

 Mexico, Rumford, Newry, Riley, Maine; Shelburne, Gorham, Randolph, Jefferson, 

 Whitefield, Dalton, Littleton, and Monroe, New Hampshire; Ryegate, Newbury, 

 Bradford, Fairlee, Thetford, Norwich, Hartford, Hartland, Windsor, Weathersfield, 

 Springfield, Rockingham, Westminster, Putnej-, Dummerston, Brattleboro, and 

 Guilford, Vermont; Leyden, Greenfield, Deerfield, Whately, Hatfield, Northampton, 

 Easthamplon, Holjoke, West Springfield, Springfield, Longmeadow, East Long- 

 meadow, and Hampden, Massachusetts; Stafford, Union, Woodstock, Pomfret, and 

 Killingly, Connecticut; Foster, Coventry, West Greenwich, East Greenwich, and 

 North Kingston, Rhode Island. In addition to these the towns of North Adams and 

 Clarksburg, Massachusetts, are also infested and are included in the quarantine area. 



This quarantine applies to all deciduous trees or shrubs, including all deciduous 

 field-grown florists' stock, vines, cuttings, grafts and scions. 



The following territory is quarantined for the gipsy moth: 



All the territory between (and including) the towns named and the Atlantic Ocean, 

 as follows: Georgetown, Westport, Edgecomb, Damariscotta, Nobleborough, New- 

 castle, Alna, Whitefield, Chelsea, Pittston, Dresden, Richmond, Bowdoin, Webster, 

 Lewiston, Auburn, Poland, Casco, Raymond, Windham, Standish, Limington, 

 Cornish, and Porter, Maine; Freedom, Ossipee, Tuftonborough, Meredith, New 

 Hampton, Hill, Danbury, Wilmot, Salisbury, Warner, Henniker, Hillsborough, 

 Antrim, Hancock, Dublin, Trov, Richmond, and Winchester, Neiv Hampshire; 

 Warwick, Orange, Athol, Petersham, Barre, Oakham, Spencer, Sturbridge, Charlton, 

 Dudley, and Webster, Massachusetts; BurriUville, Gloucester, Johnston, Cranston, 

 Warwick, and North Kingston, Rhode Island; excepting the towns of Newport, 

 Tiverton, and Little Compton, Rhode Island; Westport, Fall River, Somerset, Digh- 

 ton, Freetown, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. 



The gipsy moth quarantine applies to coniferous trees such as spruce, fir, hemlock, 

 pine, juniper (cedar), and arbor- vitse (white cedar), known and described as "Christ- 

 mas trees," and parts thereof, and decorative plants such as holly and laurel, known 

 and described as "Christmas greens or greenery." 



Also forest plant products including logs, tan bark, posts, poles, railroad ties, 

 cordwood, and lumber, and field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, 

 and other plants and plant products for planting or propagation excepting buds, 

 fruit pits, seeds of fruit, and ornamental trees and shrubs, field, vegetable and 

 flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants and roots. 



Theaboveplantsorplant products are not allowed to move interstate to anj^ point 

 outside the quarantined areas unless and until such have been inspected by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and pronounced free from the insects against 

 which quarantine has been declared. 



