24 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan -March 
Regulation l.">. Permits for the Importation of Nursery Stock and Other 
Plants and Seeds From Countries Contiguous to the United States 
When it is deemed by the Secretary of Agriculture that the importation 
from countries contiguous to the United States of any class or classes of 
nursery stock and other plants and seeds the entry of which is not provided 
for under regulations 2 and 3 will not be attended by serious risk to the 
agriculture, horticulture, or floriculture of the United States, permits may be 
issued, on application, authorizing the entry of such nursery stock and other 
plants and seeds under such safeguards as may be prescribed in the permits: 
Provided, That importations under this regulation shall be limited to specific 
classes of nursery stock and other plants and seeds which can be considered as 
peculiar to or standard productions of such contiguous countries, as opposed 
to stock imported from foreign countries and held or grown on for later sale: 
Provided further, That this shall not apply to nursery stock and other plants 
and seeds governed by special quarantines and other restrictive orders, other 
than quarantine 37. now in force, nor to such as may hereafter be made the 
subject of special quarantines: Provided further, That in addition to the cer- 
tificate required by regulation 7, the invoice covering nursery stock and other 
plants and seeds offered for entry under this regulation must be accompanied 
by a certificate of a duly authorized official of the country of origin, stating that 
the nursery stock and other plants and seeds proposed to be exported to the 
United States have been produced or grown in the country from which they are 
proposed to be exported : 7 Provided further. That cut flow T ers from the Domin- 
ion of Canada may be imported into the United States without permit or other 
restriction. 
The above rules and regulations are hereby adopted and shall be effective on 
and after December 22, 1930, and shall supersede the rules and regulations 
governing the importation of nursery stock into the United States which were 
promulgated October 24. 1028. as amended July 29. 1929. 
Done at the city of Washington this 17th day of December 1930. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] Arthur M. Hyde. 
Sea-eta ry of Agriculture. 
APPENDIX A 
The entry of the following plant material for propagation is prohibited or 
restricted by specific quarantines and other restrictive orders now in force: 
(a) Irish potatoes from all countries except the Dominion of Canada and 
Bermuda. 
(b) All five-leafed pines and all species and varieties of the genera Ribes and 
Gi'ossularia from each and every country of Europe and Asia and from the 
Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. 
(c) Cottonseed (including seed cotton) of all species and varieties from any 
foreign locality and country. 
(d) Seeds of the avocado or alligator pear from Mexico and the countries of 
Central America. 
(c) Canes of sugarcane or parts thereof from all foreign countries. 
(f) All citrus nursery stock (tribe Citrinae), including buds and scions from 
all foreign localities and countries. 
(g) All pines not included in paragraph (b) from all European countries and 
localities. 
(h) Seed and all other portions in the raw or unmanufactured state of In- 
dian corn or maize (Zea mays L.). and the closely related plants, including all 
species of Teosinte {Euchlaena) , Job's tears (Coicc) , Polytoca, Chinoaehne, and 
Sclerachne, from southeastern Asia (including India, Siam, Indo-China, and 
China), Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Philippine 
Islands, Formosa, Japan, and adjacent islands. 
(0 All varieties of sweetpotatoes and yams (Ipomoea batatas and Dios- 
corca spp.) from all foreign countries and localities. 
7 Application form no. E. Q. — 687 for permit under this regulation will be sent on 
request. 
