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Importation Regulations. 



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scions, cuttings, and buds are to be imported only through certain ports 

 at stated periods, viz. : — Through Halifax, Sherbrooke, and Montreal, 

 from September 15th to May 15th ; through Vancouver, from October 1st 

 to May 1st; through Niagara Falls, from October 1st to May 15th; 

 through Winnipeg and St. John, from March 15th to May 15th, and 

 from October 7th to December 7th; through Windsor and St. Johns 

 (Quebec), from March 15th to May 15th, and from September 26th to 

 December 7th. 



The port through which the stock is to enter must be clearly stated 

 on the package. Importers must give notice to the Dominion Ento- 

 mologist, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, within five days from the date 

 of ordering the stock, and transportation companies or other persons 

 bringing the stock into Canada must give similar notice immediately 

 the consignment is received by them. This notice must include the 

 name of the consignor and the consignee, the points of origin and 

 destination, the name of the company carrying the nursery stock, as 

 well as the nature, quantity, and origin of the same. 



Nursery stock or other vegetable matter (coming from Europe) is 

 exempt from fumigation, but is to be inspected either at the port of 

 entry or at its destination. If it is found to be infected with any of the 

 following diseases it will be destroyed, together with the cases, &c, 

 compensation being allowed up to two-thirds of the value of the stock : — 

 San Jose Scale (Aspidiotas pemiciosus), Brown-Tail Moth (Euproctis 

 chrysorrhoea), Woolly Aphis (Schizoneura lanigera), West Indian Peach 

 Scale (Aulacaspis pentagona), Gypsy Moth (Porthetria dispar), Potato 

 Canker (Chrysophlyctis endobiotica), parasitic diseases affecting potatoes 

 externally or internally, Branch or Stem Canker (Nectria ditissima), 

 Gooseberry Mildew (Sphosrotheca mors-uvcz), White Pine Blister Rust 

 (Peridermium strobi). 



The above regulations do not apply to the following plants, which 

 may be imported through any port at any period and without 

 inspection : — 



(a) Greenhouse-grown plants, including roses in foliage, which have 

 been grown in pots up to three inches in diameter, but not larger. A 

 certificate that the plants have been grown under glass must accompany 

 the invoice, and is to be signed by the consignor. 



(b) Herbaceous perennials (the stems of which die down in winter), 

 such as perennial phlox, peonies, sunflowers, &c. 



(c) Herbaceous bedding plants, such as geraniums, verbenas, pan- 

 sies, &c. 



(d) Bulbs and tubers, such as hyacinths, lilies, narcissi, and other 

 true bulbs, and also the tubers of dahlias, irises, &c. 



Importation of Plants into Sweden. — Regulations of September 22nd, 

 1905, prohibit the importation into Sweden of gooseberry bushes and 

 fresh gooseberries. Regulations of September 14th, 1906, provide that 

 living plants imported into Sweden shall be accompanied by an invoice 

 and certificate duly signed by the public authority of the place of 

 exportation, to the effect that the consignment does not contain goose- 

 berry plants or fresh gooseberries. Failing this, the consignment 

 must be submitted by the importer to the Customs authority for examina- 

 tion. The certificate above referred to must be legalised by the Swedish 

 Consul or Vice-Consul if such is stationed at the port of embarkation ; but 



