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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 1 5 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. 9, 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 



