266 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUBE. 



United States or any of its Territories or Districts of injurious plant 

 diseases or insect pests he shall, after due notice, give a public hear- 

 ing, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, at wliich 

 hearing any interested party may appear and be heard, either in 

 person or by attorney. 



Act August 20, 1912. c. 308, s. 5, 37 Stat. 316. 



Definition of term " nursery stock " as used in act. 



Sec. G. That for the purpose of this act the term " nursery stock " 

 shall include all field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cut- 

 tings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and 

 ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for 

 propagation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, 

 and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots. 



Act August 20, 1912, c. 308, s. 6. 37 Stat. 317. 



Determination, and promulgation thereof, of necessity of forbidding importation 

 of nursery stock, other than plants, etc., and plant products, in order to 

 prevent introduction of plant, etc., diseases or injurious insects new to or 

 not widely prevalent in United States; importation of such nursery stock 

 and other plants, etc., and plant products, after such promulgation, pro- 

 hibited notwithstanding certificates of inspection and regardless of use for 

 which same is intended; public hearings before such promulgation. 



Sec. 7. That whenever, in order to prevent the introduction into 

 the United States of any tree, plant, or fruit disease or of any injurious 

 insect, new to or not theretofore widely prevalent or distributed 

 within and throughout the United States, the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture shall determine that it is necessary to forbid the importation into 

 the United States of any class of nursery stock or of any other class of 

 plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products 

 from a country or locality where such disease or insect infestation 

 exists, he shall promulgate such determination, specifying the country 

 and locality and the class of nursery stock or other class of plants, 

 fruit.s, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products which, 

 in his opinion, should be excluded. Following the promulgation of 

 Huch determination by the Secretary of Agriculture, and until the 

 withdrawal of the said promulgation by him, the importation of the 

 class of nursery stock or of other cla.ss of plants, fruits, vegetables, 

 roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products specified in the said pro- 

 mulgation from the country and locality therein named, regardless 

 of the use for which the same is intended, is hereby prohibited ; and 

 until the withdrawal of the said promulgation by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, and notwithstanding that sucli class of nursery stock, or 

 other cla.'v^ of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other 

 plant })roducts be accompanied by a certificate of inspection from 

 the country of importation, no person shall import or oner for entry 

 into the United States from any country or locality specified in such 

 promulgation, any of the class of nursery stock or or other class of 

 plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products 

 named therein, regardless of the use for which the same is intended: 

 Provided^ That before the Secretary of Agriculture shall jn'omulgate 

 his determination that it is necessary to forbid the importation into 

 the United State,s of the articles named in this section he shall, after 

 due notice to interested parties, give a public hearing, under such 

 rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, at which hearing any 



