AMERICAN FRUITS 

 PROHIBITION OF IMPORTATION 

 Nursery Stock May Not Be Sent By Mail 



Into Canada 

 Editor American Fruits: 



For the information of those of your read- 

 ers who are accustomed to forward or may 

 contemplate forwarding to Canada ship- 

 ments of plants by mail, I should be pleased 

 if you would publish in your paper the fol- 

 lowing amendments to the Regulations un- 

 der "The Destructive Insect & Pest Act" 

 governing the importation of plants and. 

 vegetation into Canada: 



In Regulation 3, line 14, the words 'Im- 

 portations by mail shall be subject to the 

 same Regulations" have been struck out and 

 the following new Regulation (No. 18) has 

 been passed by Order-in-Council of Decem- 

 ber 4, 1913: 



"18. The importation of all nursery 

 stock, including trees, shrubs, plants, vines, 

 grafts, scions, cuttings or buds, through the 

 mails is prohibited, excepting greenhouse- 

 grown florists' stock, cut flowers, herbace- 

 ous perennials, and bedding plants, which 

 will be admitted, provided that a detailed 

 statement is attached to such parcels." 



In order that sufficient notice may be 

 given of this prohibition of the importation 

 of nursery stock, etc., into Canada through 

 the mails, this Regulation will take effect 

 on and after March 1, 1914. 



Information relative to the importation 

 of trees, plants, etc., into Canada and copies 

 of the Regulations governing the same will 

 be gladly furnished by the undersigned ta 

 whom communications on the subject should 

 be addressed. C. GORDON HEWITT, 



Dominion Entomologists 



Dept. Agriculture, 



Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 9, 1913. 



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