Plant Material for Loug-Dislancr Shipment 11 



mensions are as follows : Greatest length 31/2 f <?et and greatest length 

 and girth combined 6% feet. 



Xo packages should he shipped hy e.r press or freight icithout 

 special instructions. 



HOW TO ADDRESS PACKAGES 



Linen tags bearing the proper return address will be furnished 

 collaborators and others desiring to send seed or plant material to 

 the Department of Agriculture. Where such tags are not at hand, 

 address all packages: U. S. Department of Agriculture^ Bureau of 

 Plant Industry^ Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction.^ 

 \V nsliington. D. C. U. S. A. Write in the upper left-hand corner 

 of the tag the name and address of the sender. 



A LAST WORD OF CAUTION 



It ma}' seem unimportant to follow closely some of the directions 

 herem given. So many failures and disastrous results have occurred 

 from variations from the directions that the department feels com- 

 pelled to urge that they be followed as closely as practicable in all 

 cases. Xeglect to sew cloth coverings on the packages properly may 

 result in the total loss of valuable material. Leaving off the dry burlap 

 wrapper and substituting newspaper therefor may cause the sweating 

 and molding of a collection of valuable scions or budwood. Too much 

 care can not be given to the selection of clean^ healthy plant material. 

 This country has an enormous tax to pay each year in the shape 

 of losses resulting from some alien crop enemy that has found its 

 way to our shores and now demands its toll in the waj' of diminished 

 yields and destroyed crops. The citrus canker, now happily nearly 

 overcome, the gipsy moth, the brown-tail moth, the San Jose scale, 

 the white-pine blister rust, and scores of other enemies are here 

 and are likely to give us trouble for some time. We do not want any 

 more. 



