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" An allotment " means an allotment to which this Order 

 applies. 



" Disease " means the disease affecting gooseberry and currant 

 bushes which is known as Sphaet otheca Mors-uvae or American 

 Gooseberry Mildew; and " diseased " means aftected with disease : 

 " Article " means Article of this Order. 



Removal of Gooseberries from an Allotment. 3) Gooseberries 

 shall not be removed from an allotment except with a permit 

 signed by an Inspector of the Board authorising the removal, which 

 permit shall be attached to the sieve or other receptacle containing 

 the gooseberries in such manner as to be seen readily. 



Precautions in Picking Gooseberries on an allotme?it. 4) The 

 occupier of an allotment shall take such steps as are necessary to 

 secure compliance with the conditions of this Article and to carry 

 out such other precautions against the spread of Disease from his 

 allotment as an Inspector of the Board raay think necessary, and 

 require him to carry out; provided that an Inspector of the Board 

 may in writing exempt an allotment from the operation of this 

 Article or any condition therein contained. 



Conditions. a) Whenever fruit is picked one picker shall be 

 sent in advance of the others who shall pick all diseased gooseberries 

 and drop them into a can containing a suitable quantity of paraffin. 

 The diseased gooseberries shall subsequently be burnt. 



b) All pickers shall be girt with aprons or other suitable 

 protection in such a way that the disease cannot be conveyed to 

 their clothes, and these aprons or other protection shall be dipped 

 in boiling water before being taken to any other garden and also 

 at the close of each day. 



c) The pickers shall collect the gooseberries in baskets or bags 

 and carry them to some convenient part of the allotment where 

 the gooseberries shall be emptied out on a sheet and again examined. 

 Diseased gooseberries shall be at once destroyed. Sound gooseberries 

 may then be placed in the receptacle in which they are to be 

 removed from the allotment. 



a) No sieve or other receptacle in which gooseberries are to be 

 removed from the allotment shall be brought into the allotment 

 among the bushes. 



e) The baskets in which the gooseberries are gathered by the 

 pickers shall be disinfected by dipping in boiling water at such 

 times as may be required by the Inspector and shall not be taken 

 to any other garden until so disinfected. 



