1937] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Now, therefore, under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of 
August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved 
March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), and having duly given the public hearing 
required thereby, I do quarantine every State in the continental United States 
and the District of Columbia, effective on and after October 1, 192G. Hereafter, 
under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid, no 
five-leafed pines {Finns} or currant and gooseberry plants (Rihes and Grossu- 
laria, including cultivated or wild or ornamental sorts) shall be moved or 
allowed to be moved from any such State or from the District of Columbia into 
or through any other State in the continental United States or the District 
of (Jolumbia, except in manner or method or under conditions prescribed in 
the rules and regulations supplemental hereto and in amendments thereof : 
Provided, That the restrictions of this quarantine and the rules and regulations 
supplemental hereto niay be limited to the areas in a quarantined State now 
or hereafter designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as infected when said 
State shall have provided for and enforced such control measures with respect 
to such designated areas as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall be deemed adequate to effect the control and prevent the spread of the 
white-pine blister rust: Provided further, That for the enforcement of the 
restrictions under this quarantine on the interstate movement of five-leafed 
pines and currant and gooseberry plants, all interstate shipments of nursery 
stock or other plants shall be subject to inspection at place of shipment or 
destination or at any point en route by duly authorized inspectors of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Done at the city of Washington this 27th day of August 1926. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 
[SEAL] C. F. Marvin, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE 
NO. 63 
[Approved Feb. 16, 1937 ; effective Mar. 1. 1937] 
Regulation 1. Definitions 
For the purpose of these regulations the following words, names, and terms 
shall be construed, respectively, to mean : 
(a) White-pine hlister rust, or blister rust. — The fungous disease caused by 
Cronartinm rihicola Fischer. 
(h) Five-leafed pines. — Entire plants with roots, of the following species 
belonging to the genus Pinus: 
American species : 
Ayacahuite pine (P. ayacahuite Ehrenb.). 
Bristlecone pine (P. aristata Engelm.). 
Foxtail pine (P. halfouriana Murr.). 
Limber pine (P. flexilis James). 
Mexican white pine (P. strohiformis Engelm.). 
Sugar pine (P. lamherliana Dougl.). 
Western white or silver pine (P. monticola D. Don). 
Whitebark pine (P. albicauUs Engelm.). 
White pine (northern) (P. strohus L.). 
Foreign species : 
Balkan pine (P. peuce Griseb.). 
Chinese white pine (P. armandi Franch.). 
Himalayan or Bhotan pine (P. excel sa Wall.). 
Japanese white pine (P. parviflora Sieb. and Zucc). 
Korean pine (P. koraiensis Sieb. and Zucc). 
Swiss stone pine (P. cemhra L.). 
(c) Currant and gooseberry plants. — Plants, cuttings, or scions, belonging to 
the genera Rihes L. aiid Grossularia (Tourn.) Mill., including cultivated or 
wild or ornamental sorts. 
{d) European Mack currant plants. — Plants, cuttings, stocks, scions, buds, 
fruits, seeds, or parts of plants of Rihes nigrum L. 
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