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This appears to be the law in Ceylon, Uganda, Dominica, 

 Grenada, St. Christopher and Nevis, Barbados and St. 

 Lucia. In other cases this is supplemented by the require- 

 ment that the permission of the Government of the 

 importing country must be obtained, but except in the 

 case of Italian Somaliland there are clauses which pro- 

 hibit the landing of certain plants. Thus Mauritius pro- 

 hibits the importation of vines, except from the United 

 Kingdom, and requires a licence from the Director of 

 Forests and Gardens before other plants, including cut 

 flowers, are admitted. Mozambique prohibits the im- 

 portation of conifers and peach trees, vines which are 

 not resistant to Phylloxera vastatrix, coffee plants and 

 stone fruit of any kind from North America or other 

 places where peach yellows and peach rosette are present, 

 and apple trees liable to take woolly aphis. But in the 

 case of other plants the number that may be imported 

 is limited, and fumigation is required on arrival. Some- 

 what similar regulations are in force in South Africa. 

 The Government of German East Africa has prohibited 

 the landing of certain plants, and admits others only after 

 permission has been obtained. The Commonwealth of 

 Australia has apparently only prohibited the landing of 

 gooseberry bushes, but it restricts the landing of vines 

 to those which are authorized by a licence from the 

 Government, and requires all other plants to be inspected 

 and fumigated on arrival. 



Very few countries have imposed the requirements that 

 plants shall be examined and certified free from disease 

 by an inspector of the country of origin. But this has 

 been decided upon in the case of British East Africa, 

 which only admits rubber, cocoa, coconuts, rice, tobacco, 

 and potatoes on receipt of a certificate from the official 

 agricultural authority of the countries from which the 

 plants originated to the effect that they have been grown 

 in areas known to be free from diseases or pests which 

 characteristically attack such plants. A certificate of 

 health is required in Rhodesia, but it appears that the 

 seller is made responsible for the certificate and not the 

 Government. The Peruvian Government require a licence 

 from their Ministry of Agriculture before importation, 

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