82 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June, 
(d) Infested zone. The area included within one mile of any property on 
or in which infestation has been determined : Provided, That the State Plant 
Board of Florida, with the approval of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, may include in such infested zone such additional area as may be 
necessary for accomplishing eradication of this insect. 
(e) Protective zones. The area included within 9 miles of the outside bound- 
ary of any infested zone: Provided, That the State Plant Board of Florida, 
with the approval of the United States Department of Agriculture, may in- 
clude in such protective zone such additional area as may be necessary to 
effect the eradication of this insect. 
(f) Restricted articles. Fruits, vegetables, and garden and orchard products 
of all kinds ; sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure ; railway cars, boats, 
and other vehicles and containers which have been used in conveying fruits 
or vegetables ; and fruit-packing equipment and all other articles including 
nursery stock which have been associated with the production of or commerce 
in fruits or vegetables or have been or are contaminated with sand, soil, 
eath, peat, compost, or manure. 
(g) Host fruits and vegetables. Fruits, vegetables, and garden and orchard 
products of all kinds susceptible to infestation by the Mediterranean fruit fly, 
namely, (1) all wild and cultivated fruits, except watermelons, pineapples, 
coconuts, and other nuts ; and (2) the following kinds of vegetables : Peppers 
of all kinds, pumpkins, gourds, squashes, tomatoes, beans of all kinds, egg- 
plants ; together with any other fruits or vegetables or other garden or orchard 
products which may later be determined as susceptible and of which due notice 
will be given. 
(h) Host-free period. A period of time during which no host fruits or 
vegetables in any stage of development are produced or permitted to exist 
within any protective zone except fruits or vegetables of such varieties, and 
fruits or vegetables held under such conditions, as are prescribed in these 
regulations. 
{%) Inspector. An inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
REGULATION 2. CONDITIONS REQUIRED IN THE QUARANTINED STATE 
The interstate movement of restricted articles from any part of the State 
of Florida will be conditioned on the said State providing for and enforcing 
the following eradication and control measures in manner and by method [satis- 
factory to the United States Department of Agriculture, namely: 
(A) Infested zones — eradication measures 
(1) Upon determination by the State Plant Board of Florida of a Mediter- 
ranean fruit-fly infestation, the area included within 1 mile of any property 
on or in which such infestation has been determined shall be designated by 
said plant board as an infested zone: Provided, That the State Plant Board of 
Florida, with the approval of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
may include in such infested zone such additional area as may be necessary 
to effect the eradication of this insect. 
(2) Within every infested zone as prescribed above, all host fruits, wild 
and cultivated, and all host vegetables, shall be destroyed or processed or 
treated in a manner satisfactory to the inspector as soon as possible after the 
discovery of infestation therein. No host fruits or vegetables shall thereafter 
be permitted to develop to susceptible stages of maturity or to remain within 
such zone, nor shall any host vegetables be planted in such zone, until the 
State plant board, with the approval of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, shall determine that, all infestation in such zone has been eliminated 
and that the restrictions of this paragraph shall no longer remain in force 
with respect thereto. 
(3) Such treatment as shall be satisfactory to the inspector shall be ap- 
plied to the soil of premises in the infested zone and to all railway cars, boats, 
and other vehicles and containers which have been used in conveying fruits 
or vegetables therefrom, and to all fruit-packing equipment and all other 
articles which have been associated with the production of, or commerce in, 
such fruits or vegetables or are contaminated with sand, soil, earth, peat, com- 
post, or manure from the said infested zone. 
