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shipped. California and Washington state in particular 

 have quarantines against certain pests found in the 

 rest of the country. Anyone not aware of such restric- 

 tions should contact our offices and find out. 



California has a number of exterior quarantines 

 against certain pests and the host plants of these. Most 

 nursery stock that is not a host to any quarantined 

 pest can enter California sinnply with a copy of the cer- 

 tificate of inspection you receive from this office. Quar- 

 antined pests such as the Japanese beetle are not al- 

 lowed entry. Host material can be certified for Califor- 

 nia, but only under certain conditions. Chrysanthemum 

 plants (one of the hosts of the European Corn Borer) 

 cannot be shipped into California unless these plants 

 are not from second year growth, or fumigated with 

 methyl bromide, or come from seed. These conditions 

 are hard to meet. Growers knowing these bits of infor- 

 mation are forewarned as California plant regulations 

 inspectors can — and will — destroy the shipment. 



Inspectors of the division also certify nursery stock 

 destined for foreign countries, Canada, and iVlexico. 

 Each country, not just the ones mentioned, has import 

 requirements that the shipper must meet. Our inspec- 

 tors are cooperators with USDA Animal and Plant 

 Health inspection Service (APHIS), and so are able to 

 write not only state phytosanitary certificates but fed- 

 eral ones as well. Foreign shipments generally require 

 federal certificates, in many cases import permits are 



required and the grower needs to find out if the recipi- 

 ent of the stock has obtained such a number from their 

 government. 



Sometimes a shipment may be held up in one of 

 the states of the United States or in Canada. The 

 grower may have inadvertently forgotten to have the 

 nursery stock inspected before shipping. The state cer- 

 tificate you are issued by this office is not a document 

 that can be used to get stock into a foreign country, it 

 has been tried, in most cases we are able to get the 

 shipment released by discussing the situation with the 

 government official at the point where the shipment is 

 being held. Sometimes this does not work and the 

 shipment is destroyed. 



The field of regulatory horticulture is quite broad 

 and encompasses more that just looking at plants. It 

 requires expertise in may areas and diplomacy when 

 dealing with people. The work we do is essential to 

 the horticultural industry of New Hampshire and to the 

 United States. The plant inspector coming to your 

 place of business is merely a link in a long chain that 

 allow shipments from New Hampshire growers to enter 

 and flow through trade channels smoothly. 



Dr. Siegfried E. Thewke is Slate Entomologist for the New Hamp- 

 shire Department of Agriculture. Director of the Division of Plant 

 \ndustry. he's at the State Lab Bldg.. Lab. D, Hazen Drive. Con- 

 cord. NH 03301; his phone number is (603) 271-2561. 



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