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from the generally infested area to the lighly infested area, unless and until 
a certificate or permit shall have been issued therefor by an inspector. 
(2) Christmas trees and evergreen doughs. — 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 over 1 foot 
in length, originating in the generally infested area (unless grown as nursery 
stock in a cultivated nursery and certified under the provisions of regulation 4 
hereof), shall not be moved interstate to any point outside of such area and 
no certificate or permit will be issued authorizing such movement. Such 
articles which have originated in the lightly infested area may be moved inter- 
state from the generally infested area under the inspection and certification 
prescribed in paragraph (1) hereof. 
(3) Shipments from brown-tail moth infested area. — Except as provided in 
paragraph (5) hereof no deciduous trees or shrubs, or such branches or other 
parts thereof as bear leaves, shall be moved interstate from the area 
designated as infested by the brown-tail moth to any point outside thereof 
unless and until a certificate or permit shall have been issued therefor by an 
inspector, except that as to such movement wholly within the generally 
infested gypsy-moth area or wholly within the lightly infested gypsy-moth 
area, or from the lightly infested to the generally infested gypsy-moth area, 
a valid State nursery inspection certificate of the State from which the ship- 
ment is made may be substituted for such Federal certificate or permit. 
(4) Shipments within regulated areas unrestricted. — Other than as pre- 
scribed in paragraph (3) hereof, and in regulation 7, no restrictions are placed 
by these regulations on the interstate movement of restricted articles wholly 
within the generally infested area or wholly within the lightly infested area 
or from the lightly infested area to the generally infested area. 
(5) Cut -flowers and greenhouse-grown plants. — In the case of woody plants 
which are grown in the greenhouse throughout the year, the plants themselves, 
and the cut flowers thereof may be moved interstate without inspection or 
certification x under these regulations on condition that each box or package 
thereof is plainly labeled to show that the contents were greenhouse grown. 
(6) Herbaceous plants unrestricted. — No restrictions 1 are placed by these 
regulations on the interstate movement of strawberry plants, or of other 
herbaceous annual or perennial plants or parts thereof. 
Regulation 4. Conditions Governing the Issuance of Certificates 
of Inspection 
(a) Application; assembly of articles for inspection. — Persons intending to 
move restricted articles interstate shall make application therefor as far as 
possible in advance of the probable date of shipment. Applications must show 
the nature and quantity of the plants or plant products or stone and quarry 
products it is proposed to move, together with their exact location, and, if 
practicable, the contemplated date of shipment. Applicants for inspection will 
be required to assemble or indicate the articles to be moved interstate so that 
they can be readily examined by the inspector. If not so placed, inspection 
will be refused. Articles to be inspected must be free from ice and snow and 
in condition to make inspection easily practicable. 
(b) Nursery-groivn stock. — With respect to nursery-grown stock. Federal 
inspection and the issuance of Federal certificates authorizing the interstate 
movement of nursery products will be conditioned on the present at ion of a 
valid State certificate stating that the nursery or lot of nursery stock in 
question has been inspected by a State nursery inspector and certifying that it 
is apparently free from infestation with gypsy and brown-tail moths. Such 
State certification shall be renewed each year, shall he based on an inspection 
made as promptly as practicable after the egg-laying period of the gypsy 
moth, and shall be valid for the purpose of Federal certification, until the 
following egg-hatching period, except that, pending reinspection, shipments 
may be inspected and certified for interstate movement on the basis of the 
State certification of the preceding year. Whenever any nursery or inde- 
pendent unit thereof in the regulated area, or any shipment therefrom, is 
1 Shipments of such plants and flowers from tho area regulated under the Japanese 
beetle quarantine are subject to the certification requirements of that quarantine. 
