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medicinal, food, or manufacturing purposes, unless such seeds or plant products 
are restricted or prohibited entry by special quarantines or orders. 
5. Regulation 3 provides for the unlimited entry, under permit and with pro- 
vision for inspection, and, if necessary, disinfection, of seeds of trees and orna- 
mental shrubs and hardy perennial plants, certain classes of bulbs, and cuttings, 
scions, and buds of fruits; and also rose stocks, represented to be a temporary 
horticultural necessity; provided the plants and plant products enumerated are 
not otherwise restricted or prohibited entry under the provisions of special 
quarantines. 
6. Regulation 14 makes provision for the entry, under special permit, of limited 
quantities of plants and plant parts not enterable under regulations 2, 3, and 15, 
for the purpose of keeping the country supplied with new varieties and necessary 
propagating stock, or for any approved experimental, educational, or scientific 
purpose, provided such plants and plant parts are not covered by special pro- 
hibitory quarantines. 
7. Regulation 15 recognizes the difference in pest risk between importations 
from a contiguous country where no natural barriers exist and those from more 
distant countries and provides for the importation of native plants and standard 
horticultural productions of such contiguous countries under permit and necessary 
safeguards. 
8. The few exceptions to entry of plants thus provided for are those involved 
under specific quarantines, as, for example, the prohibition of entry of Ribes 
and Grossularia from certain countries, and generally of citrus, bamboo, banana 
plants, etc., but any of the plants prohibited under such quarantines may be 
imported, under permit and adequate safeguards, by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture for any necessary experimental, scientific, or introduction 
purpose. 
Provision for the Entry Under Regulation 14 of the Restricted Plants 
definitions of terms 
9. As used in regulation 14, the terms "new varieties," "necessary propa- 
gating stock," and "limited quantities" are defined in regulation 1 under the 
quarantine as follows: 
10. New varieties. — A new variety is understood to mean a novelty, i. e., a 
new plant, variety, strain, type, or form, either recognized by the trade as such 
or so listed or described in catalogues, trade journals, or other publications, or 
duly and properly certified as such by the originator or introducer. 
11. Necessary propagating stock. — Stock of old or standard varieties not avail- 
able in this country and imported for the multiplication of the plants in question 
as a nursery or florist enterprise as distinguished from imporations for the im- 
mediate or ultimate sale of the stocks actually imported. 
12. Limited quantities. — As used in regulation 14, "limited quantities" is 
understood to mean such quantities as will supply an}' reasonable need for the 
establishment of commercial reproduction plantings, or as may be necessary 
for the experimental, educational, or scientific purpose intended. 
Importations Under Regulation 14 Limited to Definite Purposes 
13. In furtherance of the object of Quarantine 37 — i. e., to limit the number 
and volume of importations of plants as the only practicable means of excluding 
new plant enemies — entry under regulation 14 of the restricted classes of plants 
is limited to plants desired for certain purposes or uses which are believed to 
be necessary for the development of American horticulture. These purposes 
are (1) to make provision for the propagation in the United States of the plants 
concerned, and (2) for any approved experimental, educational, or scientific 
work. 
Introductions for Propagation 
14. Any new variety of plant or any old or standard variety not commercially 
available in this country may be imported by any qualified person who will 
agree to propagate and increase the imported stock and thus render a public 
service by making the plants concerned more generally available. The condi- 
tions governing the release of such plants and of their increase are given in 
the application form No. 207, repeated in the permit, and are explained in more 
detail in Circular BPQ-341, a copy of which will be furnished upon request. 
