•"12". 



^f£ !J P ?f* er ?.f d «?» Amartoaa importers were quite ready and did take ad- 

 vantage of this liberality to import common and abundantly available stock under 

 false designations. Many such fraudulent attempts made it necessary for the 

 Board to surround tne designation of nevv varieties with certain safeguards and*, 

 incidentally, a good many of the restrictions on the importation of plants, such 

 as tne oona, for example, and other precautions which the Department has been 

 forcea to adopc, are due to just such attempts to violate the quarantine. Unfor- 

 tunately, as is always the case, the innocent must he restricted and made to 

 bear burdens en account of the guilty » 



The Bureau of Plant Industry cooperates with the Board in the making of all 

 decisions relative to determination of the status of such new varieties, and all 

 such requests are first referred to that Bureau for recommendation. 



This action is taken not only with respect to varieties which have been 

 officially recognised, either abroad or in this country as of merit, but also in 

 the case of any ne\7 varieties which have not been so recognized. With respect 

 to the latter, the following order has been issued by the Board: 



To aid the experts of the Department in passing on 

 applications for special permits to import new varieties 

 of plants which have not been officially recognized, either 

 abroad or in this country as of merit, the Board ruled that 

 the applicant shall be required to furnish a technical 

 description Of such new variety, such as would be published 

 in exploiting it in a florists' journal or similar publi- 

 cation. Where a variety has already been rejected as lack- 

 ing special merit by a foreign society, before granting a 

 permit a further statement is to be secured from the appli- 

 cant as to his reasons for desiring it. 



There are occasional instances when this information can not be furnished 

 and to meet such cases the Board has authorized the issuance of permits for 

 limited numbers of new varietiss for which neither names nor numbers or other 

 designations can be furnished in advance by the would-be importer, on the con- 

 dition that the foreign grower or originator shall submit for the information of 

 the Board, with the shipment, such data as is required by the Board with respect 

 to such new varieties • 



mssmsms to the plait quarantine act. 



The Plant Quarantine Act of 1912 has been amended three times, as follows: 



March 4, 1913.— To include the second proviso to Section 

 7, which provides for importations by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture of prohibited plants. 



