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field in quarantine pending the arrival of a permit from Wash- 

 ington. The regulations have greatly discouraged the promiscuous 

 fetching in of plants by the travelling public ; plants which are 

 gathered at random and packed in every kind of soil, moss or 

 other material and have always proved a menace in the past. It 

 is usually this small package wherein lies the greatest danger, and 

 one of the main objects of the Federal Horticultural Board is to 

 discourage this traffic. With the cooperation of the Post Office 

 Department the Federal Horticultural Board has been able to 

 cause the prohibition of all plant and seed shipments from foreigTi 

 countries in the mails, so that many of the small packages of 

 plants and seeds in the post offices, which were liable to be over- 

 looked in the past, are now completely cut out, excepting such as 

 are addressed to the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, or their representatives in the various states 

 or territories. This regulation is entirely in the hands of the 

 postmaster, and does not affect flower, vegetable or field seeds. To 

 import plants into this Territory the following requirements are 

 absolutely necessary : 



(1) The importer or his broker must first make application 

 for a permit to import plants before ordering the same. 



(2) Each package imported must bear the proper certificate 

 of foreign inspection from countries which maintain official 

 inspectors. 



(3) Each package or container must be marked and must 

 bear a certificate giving a list of all plants contained therein, the 

 name of the shipper or grower, the name of the consignee and the 

 locality where grown. 



(4) Each shipment must be accompanied with a consular 

 invoice and declaration not attached to the container but with the 

 bill of lading. 



Under the provisions of section 7 of the plant quarantine act 

 of August 20, 1912, the following extracts of the various notice* 

 of quarantine might be of interest: 



Quarantine Xo. 1. Superseded by Quarantine Xo. 7, pre- 

 vents the introduction into the United States of the White Pine 

 blister rust (Peridermium strohi) and forbids the importation of 

 all five-leaved pines from each and every country of Europe 

 and Asia. 



Qucrfrantine Xo. 2. Was published Sept. 18, 1912, to protect 

 the United States from entry of the Mediterranean fruit fly, now 

 thoroughly established in the Hawaiian Islands, and it prohibits 

 the shipment of any of the fruits and vegetables specified in the 

 ]^otice of Quarantine into or through any other State, Territory 

 or District of the United States. 



Quarantine Xo. 3. Was published September 20, 1912, to 



