SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 153 
1936] ±utJ 
Instructions to Collectors of Customs 
Customs Regulation si— Plant Quarantine (T. D. 48728) 
Notice of Quarantine 5 (Foreign) Mexican Fruit Ely Quarantine (T. D. 
33110), as Amended by T. D. 33247, Lifted, Placing the Fruits Named in 
Quarantine 5 Under the Provisions of Quarantine 56 (T. D. 39792) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D. C, December 22, 1936. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of Notice of Quarantine 56, with revised rules and regu- 
lations, and notice of lifting of Quarantine 5 (foreign), Mexican fruit-fly quar- 
antine promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, effective December 1, 
1936, are published for the information and guidance of customs officers and 
others concerned. 
The number of this Treasury decision should be inserted as a marginal 
reference opposite article 559 (&) (1) and 560 (a) of the Customs Regulations of 
1931. 
James H. Moyle, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO NURSERY STOCK, PLANT, AND 
SEED QUARANTINE (NO. 37) 
CALL MEETINGS ON BULB PEST 
(Press notice) 
November 6, 1936. 
Notices of two public conferences on the bulb nematode, which attacks the 
narcissus and other bulbs, were issued today by the United States Department 
of Agriculture. Tbe first is to be held in the auditorium of the National 
Museum, Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m., December 15, 1936, to consider the 
desirability of requiring treatment of all bulbs subject to these pests which now 
may be imported under Quarantine No. 37. 
The other is a notice of a public hearing, to be held at the same place and 
hour the following day, December 16, 1936, to consider the advisability of 
establishing a domestic-plant quarantine requiring the treatment of narcissus 
bulbs and other hosts of tbe bulb nematode before shipment in interstate 
commerce. 
It is not proposed to consider at either of these conferences such vegetable 
hosts of the bulb nematode as carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.. as these are 
intended primarily for food purposes and hence do not present the pest risk 
which accompanies bulbs intended for propagation or forcing. 
NOTICE OF CONFERENCE TO CONSIDER THE DESIRABILITY OF REQUIRING THE 
TREATMENT OF ALL KNOWN HOSTS OF THE BULB NEMATODE ENTERABLE 
UNDER QUARANTINE NO. 37 
November 5, 1936. 
A conference is called for December 15. 1936. at 10 a. m.. in tbe auditorium 
of tbe National Museum, Washington, D. C. for the purpose of considering the 
desirability of requiring, as a condition of entry, the treatment of all known 
hosts of tbe bulb nematode now admitted under the provisions of the Rules 
and Regulations Supplemental to the Nursery Stock, Plant, and Seed Quaran- 
tine No. 37. This conference will be open to anyone interested in the subject 
under discussion. 
It is known that certain imported bulbs other than narcissus, for example. 
hyacinths, tulips, muscari, chionodoxa, galanthus, scilla, bulbous iris, colchicum, 
