98 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
Department of Agriculture), effective March 16, 193(i, by which you will please 
be governed. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
The principal changes affecting the Postal Service consist of the extension of 
the regulated area to include additional territory in the States of Maine, Mary- 
land, New York, and Virginia, and the provision for exemptions when specially 
authorized by the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Very truly yours, 
C. B. ElLENBERGER, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 395 (revised). 
LIST OF ARTICLES EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
September 15, 1936. 
In accordance with the proviso in Notice of Quarantine No. 48, as revised, 
effective March 16, 1936, the following articles, the interstate movement of 
which is not considered to constitute a risk of Japanese beetle dissemination, 
are exempted from the restrictions of the regulations of this quarantine: 
Balsam pillows, when composed of balsam needles only. 
Banana stalks, when crushed, dried, and shredded. 
Cut orchids. 
Dyed moss and dyed sand, when heat treated, and when so labeled on the 
outside of each container of such materials. 
Floral designs or "set pieces", including wreaths, sprays, casket covers, and 
all formal florists' designs other than bouquets and cut flowers. 
Greensand or greensand marl, when treated and so labeled on the outside of 
each container of such materials. 
Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when so labeled 
on the outside of each container of such materials. 
Imported peat, when shipped in the unopened original container and labeled 
as to each container with the country of origin. 
Manure, peat, compost, or humus, when dehydrated and either shredded, 
ground, pulverized, or compressed, and when so labeled on the outside of each 
commercial container of such materials. 
Orchid plants, when growing exclusively in Osmunda fiber. 
Mushroom spawn, in brick, flake, or pure-culture form. 
Osmunda fiber, Osmundine, or orchid peat {Osmunda cinnamomea, and O. 
clai/toniana). 
Resurrection plant or birdsnest moss (Selaginella lepidophylla) . 
Sheet moss {Galliergon schriberi and Thuridium recognitum) . 
Silica sand or similar material, when processed by crushing, grinding, and 
dehydrating silica or other rock, and when so labeled on the outside of each 
container of such material, or when so designated on the waybill accompanying 
bulk carload shipments of the material. 
Sphagnum moss, bog moss, or peat moss, when dried and baled (Sphagnaceae). 
Submerged aquatic plants, including — 
Grytocoryne spp. 
Eelgrass or tape grass (Vallisneria spiralis). 
False loosestrife (Ludwigia mulerttii). 
Fish grass, Washington plant, or Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana). 
Hornwort or coon tail (Ceratophyllum demcrsum). 
Water milfoil (Myriophyllum spp.). 
Water weed, ditch moss, water thyme, or anacharis (Elodea canadensis). 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
Postmaster. Washington, D. C., September 21, 1936. 
My Dear Sir: Referring to quarantine order no. 48, on account of the Japa- 
nese beetle, notice is given to postmasters in the regulated area in the States 
