CARNATION NURSERY 



COUNTRY CUTTINGS SEEDS BULBS MISCELLANEOUS STOCK 



Jordan 1 



Spain 1 



Poland 1 



Puerto Rico 3 



Portugal 1 



91 25 50 31 3 



It should also be noted that as occasion demands, this division 

 also inspects plants belonging to homeowners taking their plants to 

 foreign countries. 

 INSPECTION OF INCOMING SHIPMENTS OF NURSERY STOCK 



Under Section 20 of the Plant Pest Law, there is a provision that 

 requires transportation companies to notify this division when they 

 receive nursery stock consigned to points in Massachusetts. 



This section provides us with a built-in safeguard for protecting 

 the nursery stock and plants growing in the state. If an insect or 

 disease condition exists when the nursery stock arrives in Massachusetts, 

 and the transportation company notifies us to that effect, we can insist 

 the material be treated, returned to the owner, or if necessary, des- 

 troyed. 



Constant checking of this sort is an aid to keeping Massachusetts 

 free from new and possibly harmful insects and diseases. 

 COLLABORATION WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Throughout the year, this division cooperates with the U.S.D.A. in 

 the survey, trapping and inforcement of the various quarantines. 



One quarantine which this division works actively on is No. 37, 

 Postentry, which allows persons and firms to import plants from foreign 



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