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house plants, including roses in leaf which have been 
propagated under glass; (2) herbaceous perennials, 
including strawberry plants; (3) herbaceous bedding 
plants; (4) all conifers; (5) bulbs and tubers. 
As all vegetation is much earlier in Oregon and 
Washington States, from which most shipments are 
made into British Columbia, it has been arranged that 
for that province the fumigating house shall be kept 
open for the winter months from October 15 till March 
15. For Manitoba and the Eastern Provinces the 
spring season is from March 15 till May 15, and the 
autumn season from October 7 till December 7. 
These fumigating houses are located at the customs 
ports of St. John, New Brunswick; St. John’s, Que- 
bec; Niagara Falls and Windsor, Ontario; Winnipeg, 
Manitoba; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The 
whole expense of these stations is assumed by the 
Dominion Government, but all shipments are made 
entirely at the risk of the shippers or consignees, the 
government assuming no risk whatever. ‘The pack- 
ages must be addressed so as to enter Canada at one 
of the above-named ports of entry, and the route by 
which they are to be shipped clearly stated upon each. 
Cape of Good Hope.—Regulations published March 
25, 1896, under authority of act No. g, dated 1896, 
prohibits importation of any stone-fruit tree, or any 
fruit, scion, cutting, graft, root, or seed, the growth 
or produce thereof, from the United States, and any one 
importing such article as aforesaid shall be subject to 
a fine not exceeding £100 sterling or six months’ im- 
prisonment, and, in addition, the articles will be 
destroyed. It is likely this will be modified, especially 
