AMERICAN FRUITS 



RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR CARRY- 

 JNG OUT PLANT QUARANTINE ACT 



Regulation 1— Short Title of the Act 



The act "To regulate the importation of 

 nursery stock and other plants and plant 

 products; to enable the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to establish and maintain quaran- 

 tine districts for plant diseases and insect 

 pests; to permit and regulate the movement 

 of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, 

 and for other purposes," approved August 

 20, 1912 (37 Stat., 315), as amended March 

 4, 1913, shall be known and referred to as 

 "The Plant Quarantine Act/' 



Regulations 2-— Definitions 



For the purpose of this act the term "nur- 

 sery stock" includes all field-grown florists' 

 stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of 

 fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and 

 other plants and plant products for propa- 

 ;gation, except field, vegetable, and flower 

 seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous 

 plants, bulbs, and roots. 



The following classes of plants are in- 

 cluded in nursery stock as defined above: 

 Fruit trees, fruit-tree stocks, nut trees, 

 grapevines, bush fruits, roses, rose stocks, 

 forest and ornamental trees and shrubs 

 (both deciduous and evergreen), field-grown 

 florists' stock, cuttings, scions, or seedlings, 

 fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and or- 

 namental trees or shrubs, and other plants 

 and plant products for propagation not 

 otherwise listed, except as noted above. 



All woody plants and parts thereof for 

 propagation or planting are included within 

 the term "nursery stock" as used in this 

 act. 



"Field-grown florists' stock" is all florists' 

 stock which is usually grow^n outside of 

 greenhouses for all or part of the year. 



"Herbaceous plants" are plants which 

 perish annually down to (sometimes includ- 

 ing) the root; that is, soft, succulent plants. 



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