62 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
nated as brown-tail moth infested in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, and 
New Hampshire, and adds parts of four counties in Vermont. 
Additional changes of interest to shippers include the exemption of such 
woody plants as have been grown in the greenhouse throughout the year and 
are so labeled; the authorization of. the shipment of Christmas trees from 
the generally infested area when grown as nursery stock in a cultivated 
nursery and certified under the nursery-stock provisions; the adding of empty 
cable reels to the list of restricted articles; and slight modifications in the 
procedure for the certification of car-lot shipments. 
SUMMARY 
The regulated area includes the entire State of Rhode Island and parts of 
the States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. 
The restricted articles are as follows: (1) Coniferous trees, such as spruce, 
fir, hemlock, pine, juniper (cedar), and arborvitae (white cedar) without 
roots, known and described as " Christmas trees ", and parts thereof, and 
parts of evergreen decorative plants, such as boxwood, holly, and laurel ; 
(2) forest-plant products, including logs, tanbark. posts, poles, car stakes, 
railroad ties, cordwood, empty cable reels, and lumber; (3) trees, shrubs, vines, 
and all plants having persistent woody stems, and parts thereof, excepting 
seeds and fruit; and (4) stone or quarry products. (Regulation 1.) 
Under these regulations no restricted articles (as defined above) shall be 
moved or allowed to be moved interstate from the regulated areas to or 
through any point outside thereof, nor from the generally infested area to 
the lightly infested area, unless and until a certificate or permit shall have 
been issued therefor by an inspector. (Regulation 5.) 
Christmas trees and evergreen boughs originating in the generally infested 
area are not allowed to be moved interstate to any point outside of that 
area, and no certificate or permit will be issued authorizing such movement 
unless such trees have been grown as nursery stock in a cultivated nursery 
and are certified under the provisions of regulation 6. (Regulation 5.) 
Deciduous trees and such parts thereof as bear leaves are not allowed to 
he moved from the brown-tail moth infested area to outside points without 
a certificate or permit, except that a State nursery inspection certificate 
may be substituted for certain classes of movement within the gypsy moth 
regulated areas. (Regulation 5.) 
Plants grown in the greenhouse throughout the year and cut flowers thereof 
may be shipped interstate without inspection and certification on condition 
that each box or package thereof is plainly labeled to show that the contents 
were greenhouse grown. 
For the conditions governing inspection and certification, marking require- 
ments and similar details, see regulations 6 to 12, inclusive. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 45 
{Effective on and after July 1, 1920. Supersedes Notice of Quarantine No. 33, revised) 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 
hereby given, that two injurious insects — the gypsy moth {Porthetria dispar) 
and the brown-tail moth {Euproctis chrysoi-rhoca) — not heretofore widely dis- 
tributed within and throughout the United States, exist in parts of the following 
States, to wit : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
and Connecticut. 
X'iw. therefore, I, C. F. Marvin, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, under the 
authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 
Stat. 1134, 1105), do hereby quarantine the States of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and by this Notice of 
Quarantine No. 45 do order that (1) coniferous trees, such as spruce, fir, hem- 
lock, pine, juniper (cedar), and arborvitae (white cedar), known and described 
as 44 Christmas trees ", and parts thereof, and decorative plants, such as holly 
and laurel, known and described as 44 Christmas greens or greenery " ; (2) forest- 
plant products, including logs, tanbark, posts, poles, car stakes, railroad ties, 
