28 PLANT QUAKANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June 
There was also issued on the same date, effective that date, February 27, 
1914, Notice of Quarantine No. 12 (Foreign), Avocado Seed Quarantine, pro- 
hibiting the entry of avocado seed, with the same purpose, and from the same 
countries. 
The above-named order issued under authority of section 5 of the plant quar- 
antine act had the effect of bringing the fruit of the avocado or alligator pear 
under the provisions of sections 1-4 of the act, under which sections avocado 
nursery stock, under the terms of the act itself, was already restricted, im- 
portation being subject to the rules and regulations for carrying out the plant 
quarantine act, issued May 26, 1913, and published as Circular 44 of the Office 
of the Secretary. 
In order to provide rules and regulations to govern entry of the newly re- 
stricted fruit of the avocado, and the better to regulate the avocado nursery 
stock already under restriction, there was issued on the same day as the above- 
mentioned order and Quarantine No. 12 and effective that date (February 27, 
1914), Regulations Governing the Importation of Avocado Fruit and Nursery 
Stock into the United States, under the provisions of the order of the Secretary 
of Agriculture, issued February 27, 1914. These regulations were to be con- 
sidered and read as a part of the Regulations for carrying out the plant quaran- 
tine act, issued May 26, 1913. 
It is to be noted that the nursery stock, plant, and seed quarantine (Notice 
of Quarantine No. 37, issued November 18, 1918, effective June 1, 1919), and 
the fruit and vegetable quarantine (Notice of Quarantine No. 56, promulgated 
August 1, 1923, effective November 1, 1923), did not come into existence for 
a number of years after the establishment of these restrictions on avocado 
fruit and the concurrent promulgation of regulations on both this fruit and 
avocado nursery stock. It may be assumed, therefore, that during this inter- 
vening period these restrictive measures served a useful purpose. 
However, after some years of experience with the fruit and vegetable quar- 
antine, No. 56, and the nursery stock quarantine, No. 37, it would appear that 
these measures have so well proved their worth as a means of protection 
against injurious foreign insects and diseases that the maintenance of the 
special avocado-fruit order of 1914 seems unnecessary. The department is con- 
vinced that the protection afforded by that order and its regulations can be 
equally well secured by the provisions of these two quarantines. 
It is proposed, therefore, to revoke the avocado-fruit order of February 27, 
1914, together with its concurrent regulations, thus allowing the fruit of this 
tree to revert automatically to the status of other fruits under the fruit and 
vegetable quarantine, No. 56, while the avocado nursery stock would similarly 
fall under the provisions of the nursery stock, plant, and seed quarantine, 
No. 37. 
For the present the avocado seed quarantine, No. 12, is being left in effect. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
NOTICE OF LIFTING OF THE AVOCADO FRUIT ORDER AND ITS CONCURRENT 
REGULATIONS 
(Effective on and after July 1, 1932) 
I Arthur M. Hvde, Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to the provisions of 
the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), do hereby revoke 
the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, promulgated February 27, 1914, and 
effective March 15, 1914, covering admission of the fruits of the avocado or 
alligator pear under restriction, together with the regulations issued thereunder, 
such revocation to become effective July 1, 1932. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of June, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture ,,- XT 
[seal ] Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Aprwulture. 
