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unloading docks within such areas, under provisions satisfactory to the inspector 
for safeguarding of such shipments pending certification and reshipment. Cer- 
tificates on this basis will be issued without inspection only in cases where, in 
the judgment of the inspector, the shipments concerned have not been exposed to 
infestation while within such freight yards, transfer points, or unloading docks. 
(6) When the fruits and vegetables were grown in districts where the fact 
has been established to the satisfaction of the inspector that no infestation 
exists and are to be shipped directly from the farms where grown to points 
outside the regulated areas, or are shipped from infested districts where the 
fact has been established to the satisfaction of the inspector that the Japanese 
beetle has not begun or has ceased its flight. 
(7) When the fruits and vegetables moving via refrigerator car from the area 
listed in paragraph (1) of this regulation, have been inspected and loaded in a 
manner to prevent infestation, in a refrigerator car with closed or adequately 
screened doors and hatches, which car prior to loading has been determined by 
an inspector as fumigated or thoroughly swept and cleaned by the common car- 
rier in a manner to rid it of infestation. During the interval between fumigation 
or cleaning and loading such refrigerator car must be tightly closed and sealed. 
(8) When the fruits and vegetables moving via refrigerator car from the area 
listed in this regulation have been fumigated in the car, when deemed necessary 
in the judgment of the inspector and when the doors and hatches of the car have 
been tightly closed or adequately screened under the supervision of an inspector. 4 
Regulation 6 
Sec. 301.48-6. Restrictions on. the movement of nursery and ornamental stock. 
A. Control of movement. — Nursery and ornamental stock as defined in regula- 
tion 1 (sec. 301.48-1), shall not be moved or allowed to be moved interstate from 
the regulated areas to or through any point outside thereof, unless a certificate 
or permit shall have been issued therefor by the inspector except as follows : 
(1) The following articles, because of their growth or production, or their 
manufactured or processed condition, are considered innocuous as carriers of 
infestation and are therefore exempt from the requirements of certification : 
(a) (i) True bulbs, corins, and tubers, when dormant, except for storage 
growth, and when free from soil, and (//) single dahlia tubers when free from 
stems, cavities, and soil. Dahlia tubers, other than single tubers meeting these 
conditions, require certification. 
(&) (0 Cut orchids, (ii) orchid plants, when growing exclusively in Osmunda 
fiber, (Hi) Osmunda fiber, Osmundine, or orchid peat (Osmunda cinnamomca, 
and 0. claytoniana) . 
(c) (i) Floral designs or "set pieces," including wreaths, sprays, casket covers, 
and all formal florists' designs ; bouquets and cut flowers not so prepared are 
not exempted ; (ii) trailing arbutus, or Mayflower (Epigaea reperis), when free 
from soil or primary roots, and when shipped during the period between October 
16 and June 14, inclusive. 
(d) (i) Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when 
so labeled on the outside of each container of such materials, (ii) balsam 
pillows, when composed of balsam needles only, (Hi) mushroom spawn, in brick, 
flake, or pure culture form, (iv) banana stalks, when crushed, dried and 
shredded. 
(e) (i) Sheet moss (Calliergon schriberi and Thuridium recognitum) , (ii) 
resurrection plant or birds'-nest moss (Sclaginclla lepidophylla) , (Hi) sphagnum 
moss, bog moss, or peat moss (Sphagnaceae) , (iv) dyed moss, when heat treated 
and appropriately labeled. 
(2) No restrictions are placed on the interstate movement of nursery and 
ornamental stock imported from foreign countries when reshipped from the 
port of entry in the unopened original container and labeled as to each container 
with a copy certificate of the country from which it was exported, a statement 
of the general nature and quantity of the contents, the name and address of 
the consignee, and the country and locality where grown. 
(3) No restrictions are placed on the interstate movement between October 16 
and June 14, inclusive, of cut flowers, aquatic plants, and of portions of plants 
without roots and free from soil (such as branches, twigs, and scions of trees 
and shrubs, and Christmas trees). 
* See footnote 1. p. t. 
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