1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 53 
SHIPMENTS OUT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
A certificate or permit issued by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar- 
antine must be attached to the outside of each shipment of woody or herba- 
ceous plants, bulbs, roots, foreign-grown seeds of woody plants, of palms, of 
Vicia (vetch, etc.), and of Lathyrus (sweet peas, etc.) consigned from the Dis- 
trict of Columbia to points outside. Each shipment is also subject to the re- 
strictions of any Federal plant quarantine or order applicable thereto. To 
arrange for inspection, apply at the Plant Inspection House of this Bureau, 
Twelfth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (District 6350, branch 4495), 
Washington, D. C. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine- 
EEVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENT OF PLANTS AND 
PLANT PRODUCTS INTO AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
[Approved April 27, 1938; effective April 30, 1938] 
I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Plant Quaran- 
tine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended, do order that no plants 
or plant products shall be moved into or out of the District of Columbia except 
in compliance with the rules and regulations supplemental hereto which are 
hereby promulgated: Provided, That certain plants or plant products may be 
exempted from these rules and regulations by administrative instructions issued 
by the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine when, in his 
judgment, such articles are considered innocuous as carriers of dangerous plant 
pests. 
Regulation 1. Definitions 
For the purpose of these regulations, the following words, names, and terms 
shall be construed, respectively, to mean : 
(a) Nursery stock. — All trees, shrubs, and plants having a persistent woody 
stem, and parts thereof capable of propagation, except fruit pits and seeds, 
provided that foreign-grown seeds of woody plants, of palms, of Vicia (vetch, 
etc.), and of Lathyrus (sweet peas, etc.), are defined as nursery stock. 
(b) Herbaceous perennial plants, bulbs, and roots. — Plants whose roots per- 
sist 2 or more years but which lack persistent woody steins above the ground. 
This term includes librous-rooted perennials, such as strawberry plants and 
phlox ; bulbs, such as narcissus and crocus ; conns, such as gladiolus ; tubers, 
such as dahlia ; fleshy roots, such as peony ; rhizomes, such as iris ; and such 
greenhouse-grown plants as ferns, geraniums, orchids, etc. 
(c) Annual plants. — Plants grown from seed for bloom or food the same sea- 
son and living only 1 year. This term includes such plants as cabbage, tomato, 
and aster. 
(d) Inspector. — Plant quarantine inspector of the United States Department 
of Agriculture. 
(e) Moved. — Offered for movement to or received for transportation by a 
common carrier or moved by any means whatever into or out of the District of 
Columbia. 
(f) Certificate. — A certificate showing that the nursery or premises from 
which the plants or plant products were taken were inspected within 1 year 
prior to the date of shipment and were found to be free from injurious insect 
pests and plant diseases, or that the plants or plant products were inspected 
prior to shipment and found to be free from injurious insect pests and plant 
diseases. 
Regulation 2. Unrestricted Articles 
No requirements as to certification or labeling are placed by these regula- 
tions 6 on the entry into or movement out of the District of Columbia of (1) 
5 Compliance with any special plant quarantine or restrictive order which may be appli- 
cable thereto is required, information relative to such restrictions may be obtained from 
the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
