NORTH CAROLINA. lOS 



said commission for the purposes of this act, shall be printed in editions of one 

 thousand copies by the public printer, and be paid for as other public printing. 



Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its ratification. 



Ratified the 5th day of March, A. D. 1897. 



Rules Concerning North Carolina Nurseries. 



Definition of " nursery stock.'' — In these rules * * * ^l^e term "nursery 

 stock " is construed to include all fruit and nut trees, currant and gooseberry 

 plants, and all such shade and ornamental trees as shed their leaves in winter 

 (i. e., deciduous trees), whether they be grown especially for sale or taken from 

 the forest. It also includes all buds, grafts, scions, and cuttings from same. 



It does not include palms, ferns, rubber plants, evergreens (including pines, 

 cedars, and junipers), hedge plants, cut flowers, and such other plants as are 

 commonly known as florists' stock, whether they be grown for sale or taken from 

 the forest. Nor does it include wild herbaceous plants which may be collected 

 and sold as botanical specimens or for medicinal uses. 



Exceptions. — Raspberry, blackberry, and strawberry plants, grapevines, rose- 

 bushes, euonymus, magnolias, and osage orange are not here included under the 

 term " nursery stock," but if known to be infested with the San Jose scale or 

 other similarly serious pests will be subject to same rules as regular nursery 

 stock which is infested. 



Special note. — Persons within the State of North Carolina who grow plants of 

 the kinds named as " exceptions " in the preceding paragraph, and who ship such 

 stock into other States, must make application to this commission to have their 

 premises inspected each year, for some other States prohibit the sale of such stock 

 within their borders unless it has been inspected. But those who grow such 

 plants for sale only in North Carolina need not have their premises inspected 

 unless this commission shall so decide. 



Definition of " nursery.''' — Any place upon which is grown, for purposes of 

 sale, barter, or exchange, any of the plants or parts thereof which have been 

 defined as nursery stock, shall be considered as a nurseiy, no matter how few 

 may be the number of plants. This does not include those who grow stock 

 solely for their own use. 



Rule 1. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell, offer for sale, exchange, 

 barter, or give away any such plants or parts of plants above described as nur- 

 sery stock, and which are grown within the State of North Carolina, unless in 

 possession of a valid certificate of inspection previously obtained from this 

 commission. 



Rule 2. Every carload, box, bale, package, or delivery of nursery stock (even 

 if it be only a single tree) which is sold, exchanged, bartered, or given away by 

 any person, firm, or corporation whose place of business is in North Carolina, 

 shall be accompanied by a valid copy of the certificate of inspection plainly and 

 securely attached. And any nursery stock being shipped for delivery w^hich is 

 not accompanied by such copy of certificate is declared to be a public nuisance 

 and is liable to be destroyed without compensation to the consignor. And no 

 \^ agent of any transportation company or common carrier can accept for trans- 

 portation, within the State of North Carolina, any shipment of stock not accom- 

 panied by such copy of certificate, plainly and securely attached. 



