CHAPTER XIX 

 LAWS AFFECTING NURSERY STOCK 



382. Enactments, general. — During recent years, laws 

 have been passed by various countries and states regu- 

 lating the sale and shipment of nursery stock, which must 

 be inspected and certified by a duly authorized officer. 

 The United States, the 48 states individually, and Can- 

 ada, have such laws ; but, because these differ more or 

 less, nurserymen's associations have recently been work- 

 ing in conjunction with the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists to secure the passage of a uni- 

 form law for the United States and Canada and for the 

 various states. At the present writing, though much 

 progress has been made, the campaign is only well begun. 

 A synopsis of the present operative laws of the United 

 States and of Pennsylvania follow : 



383. United States nursery stock law. — Whoever plans 

 importing nursery stock from a foreign country should 

 first secure a permit from the Federal Horticultural 

 Board of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington, D. C. A broker or a commission mer- 

 chant may take out a permit in his own name or act as 

 agent for the actual purchaser. The importer must see 

 that each package on arrival at the port of entry bears 

 the proper certificate of foreign inspection and also see 

 that each is marked in accordance with the law (Sections 

 3 and 4). On arrival of the stock, and before unpacking 

 or re-shipping, the Secretary of Agriculture and the 

 proper state inspectors must be notified (Section 2, regu- 

 lation 8) and given proper data. The Federal board will 

 supply pamphlets covering all cases. 



384. Nursery stock by mail from foreign countries (in- 

 cluding florists' stock, cuttings, grafts, cions, buds, bulbs, 



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