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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repealed.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 * * * the 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. 
Haceptions.—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. i 
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 nursery, 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 which 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 e¢arrier 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. 
