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for nursery inspection are required to be filed with the Plant Quarantine and 
Control Administration prior to July 1, and, except for 1929, at least one year 
preceding the proposed date of shipment. Shippers may secure copies of the 
•quarantine regulations without charge by addressing the Plant Quarantine and 
Control Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, 1729 New 
York Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
The phony pen eh disease is an infectious condition of the root system which 
causes peach and nectarine trees, and other trees grafted or budded on peach 
or nectarine roots, to become dwarfed and to produce abnormally small and 
poorly flavored fruit. The infectious virus appears to be confined entirely to 
the root system and no restrictions therefore are placed on the movement of 
fruit or of scions, branches, and other parts of peach and nectarine trees with- 
out roots. 
The disease has been known for some years and has gradually spread until it 
is now found in 90 per cent of the commercial peach orchards of Georgia. Sur- 
veys indicate its absence from other States, except at one point in Alabama. 
An eradication campaign in the infected area is being undertaken by the 
Federal and State Departments of Agriculture, and the nature of the infection is 
?uch that this plan offers great promise of success. 
QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF THE PHONY PEACH DISEASE 
Notice of Quabantine No. 67 
(Approved April 30, 1929; effective June 1, 1929) 
I, A. M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that it is neces- 
sary to quarantine the States of Georgia and Alabama to prevent the spread of 
the phony peach disease, a dangerous plant disease new to and not hereto- 
fore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the plant quar- 
antine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of 
Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), and having duly given 
the public hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the said States of 
Georgia and Alabama, effective on and after June 1, 1929. Hereafter, under 
the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid, no peach 
trees, peach roots, nectarine trees, nectarine roots, or any kinds or varieties of 
trees or shrubs grafted or budded on peach or nectarine roots shall be shipped. 
offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation or trans- 
ported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be 
moved from the said quarantined States to any other State or Territory or 
District of the United States in manner or method or under conditions other 
than those prescribed in the rules and regulations hereinafter made and in 
amendments thereto: Provided, That the restrictions of this quarantine and 
of the rules and regulations supplemental thereto may be limited to the areas 
in the quarantined States now or which may hereafter be designated by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as regulated areas, when in the judgment Of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, such limitation shall be adequate to prevent the 
spread of the phony peach disease to other States and Territories, and when 
the movement of the restricted articles intrust ate from such regulated areas i^ 
so safeguarded as to prevent the spread of the said disease therefrom to Other 
parts of the quarantined States and thence into interstate commerce. 
Done at the city of Washington this 30th day of April, 1921 >. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United Slates Department of 
Agriculture. 
[seal.1 Abthtjb m. Hyde, 
Sccrctfiru Of Agriculture. 
RULES and Regulations Supplemental to Notice ok QUABANTINE No. 67 
(Approved April 80, 1929; effective June i. Lfi 
REGULATION 1. DO IM iions 
For the purpose of these regulations the following words, names, and terms 
shall he construed, respectively, to mean: 
(a) Phony peach disease: a communicable disease of peach and other 
commonly known as phony peach disease and characterized by stunting ^i' the 
trees, reduction of the crop and certain other symptoms. 
