1939] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 129 
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 37 
[Approved November 30, 1938; effective December 1, 1938] 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), it is ordered that regulation 3 of the revised rules and regula- 
tions supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 37, on account of certain injurious 
insects and fungous diseases, which were promulgated December 17, 1930, and 
amended effective July 1, 1932, and January 14, 1935, be, and the same is hereby, 
further amended to read as follows : 
Regulation 3. Nursery Stock, Other Plants and Parts of Plants, Including 
^ekds, for Which a Permit is Required 
The following nursery stock, other plants and parts of plants, including seeds, 
not including, however, such other plants and parts of plants as are named in 
appendix A, which are governed by special quarantines and other restrictive 
orders now in force, nor such as may hereafter be made the subject of special 
quarantines, may be imported, without limitation as to quantity or use, from 
countries which maintain inspection (appendix B), under permit upon com- 
pliance with these regulations : 
(1) Bulbs, conns, or root stocks (pips) of the following genera: Lilium (lily), 
Convallaria (lily-of-the-valiey) , Hyacinthus (hyacinth), Tulipa (tulip), Crocus, 
and Narcissus (daffodil and jonquil) ; until further notice, Chionodoxa (glory- 
of-the-snow), Galanthus (snowdrop), Scilla (squill), FritiUaria, Muscari (grape- 
hyacinth), Ixia, and Era nth is (winter aconite) ; and, on and after December 1, 
1939, begonia and gloxinia tubers. 
(2) Cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits or nuts: Prodded, That cuttings, 
scions, and buds of fruits or nuts may be imported from Asia, Japan, Philippine 
Islands, and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand) under the pro- 
visions of regulation 14 only. (Stocks of fruits or nuts may not be imported, 
under permit or otherwise.) 
(3) Rose stocks, including Manetti, Rosa multiflora (brier rose), and R. 
rugosa. 
(4) Nuts, including palm seeds for growing purposes: Provided, That such 
nuts or seeds shall be free from pulp. 
(5) Seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade trees, seeds of deciduous and 
evergreen ornamental shrubs, and seeds of hardy perennial plants: Provided, 
That such seeds shall be free from pulp: Provided further. That citrus seeds 
may be imported only through specified ports subject to disinfection as provided 
in regulation 9: Provided further, That mango seeds may not be imported under 
permit or otherwise, except from the countries of North America, Central 
America, and South America, and the West Indies. 
Importations from countries not maintaining inspection of nursery stock, 
other plants and parts of plants, including seeds, the entry of which is permis- 
sible under this regulation, may be made under permit upon compliance with 
these regulations in limited quantities for public-service purposes only, but this 
limitation shall not apply to tree seeds. 
(6) Materials permitted entry under Quarantine No. 56 for consumption pur- 
poses are authorized entry under this regulation for propagation. 
This amendment shall be effective on and after December 1, 193s. and shall 
on that date supersede amendment No. 2, which became effective January 14, 
1935. 
Done in the city of Washington this 30th day of November 1938. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[SEAL] IIKNRY A. WALLACE, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
