296 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
products imported for medicinal, food, or manufacturing purposes, and field, 
vegetable, and flower seeds. Cut flowers from the Dominion of Canada are 
also allowed entry without permit. The entry of the following nursery stock 
and other plants and seeds is permitted under permit: 
(1) Bulbs, conns, or root stocks (pips) of the following genera : Lilium (lily). 
Conrullarhi (lily-of-the-valley), Hyacinthus (hyacinth), Tulipa (tulip), and 
Crocus; and, until further notice, Chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow), Galanthus 
(snowdrop), Scilla (squill), Fritillaria, Muscari (grape-hyacinth), Ixia, and 
Eranthis (winter aconite). 
(2) Cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits or nuts: Provided, 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 provi- 
sions 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, and that elm (Ulmus spp.) 
seeds may not be imported from Europe under permit or otherwise. 
Importations from countries not maintaining inspection of nursery stock, 
other plants and parts of plants, including seeds, the entry of which is permissi- 
ble 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. 
European corn borer. — Quarantine No. 41, revised, effective June 1, 1926 : 
Forbids, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective March 1, 1933, the importation fromjdl foreign countries and 
localities of the stalk and all other parts, whether used for packing or other pur- 
poses, in the raw or unmanufactured state, of Indian corn or maize, broomcorn, 
sweet sorghums, grain sorghums, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, sugarcane, pearl 
millet, napier grass, teosinte, and Job's tears, on account of the European corn 
borer (Pyrausta nubilalis) and other dangerous insects and plant diseases. 
Rice. — Quarantine No. 55, effective November 23, 1933 : Forbids, except from 
the Republic of Mexico upon compliance with the conditions prescribed in the 
rules and regulations supplemental thereto, effective November 23, 1933, the im- 
portation of seed or paddy rice from all foreign countries and localities, and 
the importation of rice straw and rice hulls from all foreign countries and local- 
ities, on account of injurious fungous diseases of rice, including downy mildew 
(Sclerospora macrocarpa), leaf smut (Entyloma oryzae), blight (Oospora oryz- 
torum), and glume blotch (Melanomma glumarum), as well as dangerous insect 
pests. 
Fruits and vegetables. — Quarantine No. 56, effective November 1, 1923: For- 
bids, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
amended effective August 1, 1933, the importation of fruits and vegetables not 
already the subject of special quarantines or other restrictive orders, and of 
plants or portions of plants used as packing material in connection with ship- 
ments of such fruits and vegetables from all foreign countries and localities 
other than the Dominion of Canada, on account of injurious insects, including 
fruit and melon flies (Trypetidae). Includes and supersedes Quarantine No. 
49 on account of the citrus black fly. 
Flag smut. — Quarantine No. 59, effective February 1, 1926: Forbids the im- 
portation of all species and varieties of wheat (Triticum spp.) and wheat prod- 
ucts, unless so milled or so processed as to have destroyed all flag-smut spores, 
from India, Japan, China, Australia, Union of South Africa, Italy, and Spain. 
Packing materials. — Quarantine No. 69, effective July 1, 1933: Forbids the 
entry from all foreign countries and localities of the following materials when 
used as packing for other commodities, except in special cases where prepara- 
tion, processing, or manufacture are judged by an inspector of the United 
States Department of Agriculture to have eliminated risk of carrying inju- 
