1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 73 
SUMMARY 
The regulated area includes the entire State of Rhode Island and parts of the 
States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. 
The restricted articles, unless exempted by administrative instructions, are as 
follows: (1) 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, and parts of evergreen decorative plants, such as box- 
wood, holly, and laurel; (2) forest-plant products, including logs, tanbark, posts, 
poles, car stakes, railroad ties, cord wood, empty cable reels, and lumber; (3) 
trees, shrubs, vines, and all plants having persistent woody stems, and parts 
thereof, excepting seeds and fruit; and (4) stone or quarry products (regulation 1). 
Under these regulations no restricted articles (as defined above) shall be moved 
or allowed to be moved interstate from the regulated areas to or through any 
point outside thereof, nor from the generally infested area to the lightly infested 
area, unless and until a certificate or permit shall have been issued therefor by an 
inspector (regulation 5). 
Christmas trees and evergreen boughs originating in the generally infested area 
are not allowed to be moved interstate to any point outside of that area, and no 
certificate or permit will be issued authorizing such movement unless such trees 
have been grown as nursery stock in a cultivated nursery and are certified under 
the provisions of regulation 6. 
Deciduous trees and such parts thereof as bear leaves are not allowed to be 
moved from the brown-tail moth infested area to outside points without a cer- 
tificate or permit, except that a State nursery inspection certificate may be sub- 
stituted for certain classes of movement within the gypsy moth regulated areas 
(regulation 5). 
Plants grown in the greenhouse throughout the year and cut flowers thereof may 
be shipped interstate without inspection and certification on condition that each 
box or package thereof is plainly labeled to show that the contents were greenhouse 
grown. 
For the conditions governing inspection and certification, marking requirements, 
and similar details, see regulations 6 to 12, inclusive. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 45 (REVISED) 
(Approved Nov. 4, 1935; effective Nov. 4, 1935) 
Thejfact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 
hereby given, that two injurious insects — the gypsy moth (Porthetria dispar) 
and the brown-tail moth (Nygmia phaeorrhoea) — not heretofore widely distributed 
within and throughout the United States, exist in all of Rhode Island, and in 
parts of the following States, to wit: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 
chusetts, and Connecticut. 
Now, therefore, I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, under the authority 
conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 
315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 
1165), do hereby quarantine the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and by this Notice of Quarantine 
No. 45 do order that (1) coniferous trees, such as spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, juniper 
(cedar), and arborvitae (white cedar), known and described as Christmas trees, 
and parts thereof, and decorative plants, such as holly and laurel, known and 
described as Christmas greens or greenery; (2) forest-plant products, including 
logs, tanbark, posts, poles, car stakes, railroad ties, cordwood, and lumber; 
(3) field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and other plants and 
plant products, excepting fruit pits, seeds of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, 
field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants and 
roots; and (4) stone or quarry products, shall not be moved or allowed to move 
interstate from any of said States in manner or method or under conditions other 
than those prescribed in the rules and regulations supplemental hereto: Provided, 
That certain articles classed as restricted herein may, because of the nature of 
their growth or production or their manufactured or processed condition, be 
exempted by administrative instructions issued by the Chief of the Bureau of 
