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culture, and when so stamped or labelled they shall not be subjected 

 to further quarantine or restriction in interstate cotnmerce. 



Sec. 7. That it shall be unlawful for any person, persons or cor- 

 poration to transport from one state or territory or the District of 

 Columbia into any other state or territory or the District of 

 Coluinbia, or for any person, persons or corporation to deliver to 

 any person, persons or corporation for transportation from one 

 state or territory or the District of Columbia into any other state or 

 territory or the District of Columbia, any trees, plants, buds, cut- 

 ting's, g-rafts, scions, or nursery stock, which have not been ex- 

 amined in accordance with the provisions in sections 5 and 6 of this 

 act or which on said examination have been declared by the in- 

 spector to the dangerously infested with any injurious insects or 

 diseases. 



Sec. 8. That whenever it shall appear to the secretary of agricul- 

 ture that any state, territory, corporation, firm or person shall have 

 provided proper and competent inspection and treatment in accord- 

 ance with the proper provisions of this act for the objects above 

 specified as being subject to inspection and treatment, he may by 

 proclamation or otherwise accept such inspection and treatment in 

 lieu of inspection performed by officers appointed by himself, 

 which acceptation or proclamation by the said secretary or agricul- 

 ture shall relieve all such articles specified in section 5, 6 and 7 of 

 this act, when properly stamped or labelled, from further quaran- 

 tine ©r restriction in interstate commerce. 



WHAT OTHERS THINK OF TOP-WORKING. 



"I would sooner pay one dollar for one tree of Grimes' Golden or 

 Baldwin top-worked on the Virginia crab than to accept of one 

 hundred of the best root-grafted American apple trees as a g'ift." — 

 R. P. Speers, la. Hort. Rep., 1895, P. 135, for years director of the Iowa 

 Agricultural College. 



"Top-working- is the royal road to success."— W. H. Gilford, la. 

 Hort. Rept., 1896. One of the best and most venerable horticultur- 

 ists now in the northwest. 



" Top-working- will carry our choice half-hard}^ varieties 300 miles 

 farther north than by any other present known process." — J. C. 

 Plumb, Milton, Wis. The oldest uurserj^nan now living in the 

 northwest. 



" From my practical experience during- the past forty years in 

 northern Iowa, I deem top-working (when properl};- done) a sure suc- 

 cess. It-will aid us in growing our most desirable apples as inuch 

 as 25 per cent."— Edwin R. Heisz, Iowa. One of the oldest and most 

 reliable and intelligent orchardists of the northwest. 



