Missouri Eur sery- stock 
shipping requirements 
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Missoimi 
Summary of General Nursery-Stock Shipping Requirements 
(Insect Pect and Plant Disease Law, Rev. Stat. Mo. 19 3" i 
ch. 102, art. 3; Regulations, effective Apr. 15, 19*+&) 
Definition of Nursery-Stock . — All trees, shrubs, vines, and parts capable 
of propagation, except seed, including plants collected from fields, 
forest, or native stands; all plants having a persistent woody stem; and 
perennials, such as iris, peonji, gladiolus, and strawberries. 
General Shipping Requirement st — Any nonresident nurseryman desiring to 
ship nursery stock into Missouri should apply for a Missouri nursery 
permit certificate. There is no charge for a nursery permit certificate. 
Annually, on or "before October 1, each nurseryman must file with the 
Missouri State Entomologist a list of his agents operating in Missouri, 
and must supplement this list as additional agents are employed. The 
State Entomologist will issue for each qualified nursery agent, free of 
charge, a nursery agent's certificate, which must be carried when the agent 
is doing business in Missouri, to be shown upon request. 
Any person in Missouri not engaged in the nursery business may arrange 
for a package certificate of inspection by sending the plants, prepaid, to 
the Department of Agriculture, Jefferson City. If the plants pass in- 
spection they will be forwarded to the consignee upon arrangement by the 
owner for payment of transportation expenses. 
Each carload, truckload, or container of nursery stock moved into 
Missouri must have attached an inspection certificate of the Stats of 
origin and a general statement of the contents, except tnat no certificate 
is needed for a shipment for identification or experimental purposes to 
the State Experiment Stations or to the State or Federal Departments of 
Agriculture. 
Common carriers or their agents receiving shipments of any products 
shipped in violation of any State or Federal quarantine or State regu- 
lation mist notify the State Department of Agriculture and hold such ship- 
ments pending instructions. 
Shipments from any foreign country and Territories of the United 
States of plants or plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state 
(except fruits, nuts, field, vegetable, or flo\ver seeds) must be held 
unopened pending instructions, whether or not certified. 
