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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when so 
labeled on the outside of each container. 
Jerusalem-cherry (Solatium capsicastrum, S. pseudocapsicum, S. hender- 
soni). 
Leaves of deciduous and evergreen trees that have been treated or dyed. 
Mistletoe (PJioradendron flavescens, Viscum album, etc.). 
Oregon huckleberry ( V actinium ova-turn). 
Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). 
Strawberry plants {Fragaria spp.). 
Trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens). 
Verbena {Verbena spp.). 
Wintergreen (Gaultheria spp., Pyrola spp.). 
(Sec. 301.45a, issued under Sec. 301.45.) 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, November 11, 1930. 
Postmaster : 
Referring to quarantine order No. 45 of the United States Department of 
Agriculture on account of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth, notice is given 
to postmasters in the regulated area, which includes the entire State of Rhode 
Island and parts of the States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, and Vermont, that, effective November 6, 1939, the following articles, 
the interstate movement of which is not considered to constitute a risk of moth 
dissemination, are exempted from the restrictions of the regulations of this 
quarantine : 
* * * 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
[For list of articles, see B. E. P. Q. 386 (5th Revision), above.] 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
B. E. P. Q. 499 (Supplement No. 1) 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO INSPECTORS ON THE TREATMENT OF NURS- 
ERY PRODUCTS, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND SOIL, FOR THE JAPANESE BEETLE 
November 4, 1939. 
Experiments recently completed with methyl bromide have shown that all 
living larvae of the Japanese beetle will be killed in 12-inch pots or soil balls 
when the treatment, dosage, and temperature required in circular B. E. P. Q. 
499 [(1) (5) (i)], issued June 9, 1939, are applied. 
The paragraph headed "Preparation of plants" on page 14 of the above circular 
(mimeographed) is hereby amended to read as follows: 
Preparation of plants. — The treatment is to be applied only to 
plants with bare roots or in 12-inch pots, or smaller, or in soil balls 
not larger tban Y2. inches in diameter or thicker than 12 inches when 
not spherical. The soil should not be puddled or saturated. With 
wet material, drying for a period of 12 hours is advisable before 
treatment. The plants should be stacked on racks or separated so 
that the gas can have access to both top and bottom surfaces of pots 
or soil balls. While not essential that the balls bo completely sepa- 
rated from each other, they should not be jammed tightly together. 
(Sec. 301.48a, issued under Sec. 301.4S.) 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
