1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS Igl 
submission for terminal inspection of parcels containing plants and plant prod- 
ucts subject to such inspection under the instructions heretofore issued. Under 
such instructions delivery of the parcels is prohibited only in case they are 
found to be infected with injurious pests and are incapable of satisfactory dis- 
infection. Under the law as amended by Order No. 9620 delivery of the parcels 
is also to be withheld if the plants or plant products were mailed in violation 
of a plant quarantine law or plant-quarantine regulation of the State of destina- 
tion pertaining to such injurious pests. However, this is to be done only after 
the respective States shall have submitted the information prescribed by the 
amended law and specific instructions covering the subject are issued by the 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Classification. Until this 
procedure is followed there is no provision for observing the State quarantine 
laws or regulations, and postmasters should be governed accordingly. Post- 
masters will, of course, continue to enforce the plant quarantines and regula- 
tions of the United States Department of Agriculture, as provided by paragraph 
1. section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Roy M. North, 
Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF ESTABLISHING 
A DOMESTIC PLANT QUARANTINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF REQUIRING THE 
TREATMENT OF NARCISSUS BULBS AND OTHER KNOWN HOSTS OF THE BULB 
NEMATODE AS A PREREQUISITE TO INTERSTATE SHIPMENT 
November 5, 1936. 
Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of the Plant 
Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended, a public hearing 
w r ill be held in Washington, D. C, in the auditorium of the National Museum, 
at 10 a. m., on December 16, 1936, for the purpose of considering the advisability 
of providing by quarantine 3ot such regulation of interstate movement of 
narcissus bulbs and other known hosts of the bulb eelworm as shall be deemed 
necessary to prevent the further spread of this pest within the continental 
United States. 
In view of the apparent difficulty to determine the presence of eelworm by 
means of inspection, consideration will be given at this hearing to the desir- 
ability of requiring sterilization of domestic-grown narcissus bulbs, hyacinths, 
tulips, bulbous iris, amaryllis, bulbous begonias, and certain other bulbous 
plants other than food plants, all of which are known to be carriers of the 
bulb nematode. 
Consideration of this action becomes necessary in order to afford American 
growers the same protection against infection from domestic-grown bulbs as 
will be given by the sterilization of foreign-grown narcissus, and the possible 
sterilization of other imported hosts of the eelworm, consideration of which 
will be reviewed at a conference being held prior to this public hearing. 
Any person interested in the proposed quarantine may appear and be heard 
either in person or by attorney. 
H. A. Wallace. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
B. E. P. Q. 405, Supplement No. 1. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 
November 13, 1936. 
Colorado Potato Beetle Quarantine Decree of February 26. 1875. — Paragraph 
5 under the above caption on page 11 of Circular B. E. P. Q. 405 is to be 
stricken out. 
Importation of fresh cherries restricted. — The following paragraph is to be 
inserted after the existing paragraph under this caption on page 14 of Circular 
B. E. P. Q. 405 : 
"Importation must be made through authorized ports. (Decree of Apr. 27, 
1929; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preussischer Staatsanzeiger, No. 104, Mav 
6, 1929, and later orders.)" 
