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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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in closed containers, salal (known to the trade as lemon) cuttings, for orna- 
mental use, and sawdust and shavings produced under certain prescribed con- 
ditions and so identified. 
Wintergreen cuttings have been more specifically classified as to species. 
§ 301.45a Administrative instructions ; articles exempted from restrictions. — 
Pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine by the second proviso of § 301.45, Chapter III, Title 7, 
Code of Federal Regulations (notice of Quarantine No. 45, on account of the 
gypsy moth and brown-tail moth), the following articles, the interstate move- 
ment of which is not considered to constitute a risk of moth dissemination, are 
exempted from the restrictions of the regulations of this quarantine, effective 
November 20. 1942. 
Acacia cuttings for ornamental use (Acacia spp.). 
Banana stalks, when crushed, dried, and shredded. 
Birch slabs for use as post cards. 
Birch bark when waxed, polished, or otherwise treated to adequately eliminate 
all risk of transmitting infestation and when used in the manufacture of novelties. 
Box shooks, when newly manufactured and planed on four sides. 
Boxwood cuttings and branches for ornamental use (Buxus sempervirens) . 
Cable reels, when newly manufactured and empty. 
California peppertree cuttings and branches for ornamental use (Schinus 
molle). 
Clubmoss (sometimes called "ground pine") (Lycopodinm spp.). 
Cuttings of woody plants that have been grown in the greenhouse throughout 
the year, when labeled on the outside of the container to show that the contents 
were greenhouse grown. 
Eucalyptus cuttings and branches for ornamental use (Eucalyptus globulus). 
Evergreen smilax (Smilax lanceolata) . 
Fuchsia (Fuchsia spp.). 
Galax (Galax aphylla). 
Geranium (Pelargonium spp.). 
Heather cuttings for ornamental use (Erica spp., Calluna spp.). 
Heliotrope (Heliotropium spp.). 
Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when so labeled 
on the outside of each container. 
Jerusalem-cherry (Solanum capsicastrum, S. pseudocapsicum, S. hendersoni). 
Leaves of deciduous or evergreen trees that have been treated or dyed. 
Mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens, Viscum album, etc. 
Oregon huckleberry (Vaecinium ovatum). 
Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). 
Salal, known to the trade as lemon cuttings, for ornamental use (Gaultheria 
shall on). 
Sawdust that has been (1) produced in established, nonportable, commercial 
sawmills from boards or other timber previously sawed four sides, (2) subse- 
quently blown through an air-blast conveyor line having a minimum length of 
50 feet and at least one 45° or sharper angle, (3) protected from infestation 
prior to shipment, and (4) identified as specified below. 
Shavings that have been either (1) produced by planers having 6 or more 
blades, or (2) blown through an air-blast conveyor line having a minimum 
length of 50 feet and at least one 45° or sharper angle ; and in either case pro- 
tected from infestation prior to shipment, and identified as specified below. 
Invoices and waybills covering bulk carload or less-than-carload shipments of 
sawdust or shavings meeting these conditions for exemption shall bear thereon 
a notation to the effect that : 
"The consignor guarantees that the contents of this shipment have been pro- 
duced under conditions which entitle the material to exemption as specified 
in the Federal gypsy moth quarantine regulations or administrative instructions 
thereto." 
Strawberry plants (Fragaria spp.). 
Trailing arbutus (Epigaea repcm). 
Verbena (Verbena spp.). 
Vermiculite (variously termed zonolite or mica-gro) when exfoliated or ex- 
panded and when packaged in closed containers. 
Wintergreen for ornamental use (Gaultheria procumbens, Pyrola spp.). See 
also Salal. 
Wood flour, pulverized wood, or ground wood sawdust, when processed by 
screening or sifting through a screen of at least 30 meshes per inch. 
