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APPE17DIX 
Requirements for Mailing Plants and Plant Products 
Under the postal laws and regulations, nursery stock, including all 
field-grown florists' stoek, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 
scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees 
or shrubs, and other plants, and plant products, for propagation, including 
strawberry plants, ( except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding 
plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots), may be admitted to 
the mails only when accompanied by a State inspection certificate to the • 
effect that the nursery or premises from which such stock is shipped has 
been inspected within a year and found free from injurious insects and 
plant diseases. Parcels containing such nursery stock must be plainly 
marked to snow the nature of the contents and the name and address of the 
sander. (Postal Laws and Regulations 19*+0, sec. 595«) Inspection and 
certification >rust be done "oy a plant quarantine official of the State of 
origin. An. individual mailing of such plants or plant products, if from 
uninspected premises, will also be accepted upon examination and certifi- 
cation by a State plant quarantine official. The address of the Missouri 
plant quarantine official is given in the preceding summary. 
Terminal Inspection of Hail Shipments of Plants and Plant Products 
(Act Mar. 4, 19157 as amended June 4, 193^1 Postal Laws 
and Regulations 19^0, see. 59$) 
Establishment of Terminal Inspection , — Any State desiring to operate under 
the provisions of the terminal inspection law so as to regulate the move- 
ment of mail shipments of plants and plant products into (or within) the 
State may, after having provided therefor at State expense and having 
designated one or more places where inspection will be maintained, arrange 
to have such mail shipments .turned over to State plant quarantine inspec- 
tors for examination at designated inspection points. Application Will 
be made to the Secretary of Agriculture by submitting a list of plants 
and plant products and the plant pests transmitted thereby, which are to 
be examined* The list, when approved in whole or in part, will be trans- 
mitted to the Postmaster General whereupon postmasters will be informed 
and instructed. 
Anyone mailing a parcel containing any plants or plant products ad- 
dressed to any place within a. State maintaining terminal inspection thereof 
is required, under the law, to have the parcel plainly marked on the cut- 
ride to show the nature of the contents. Materials shipped under Federal 
quarantine certificates issued by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine may be exempted from terminal inspection at the option of the 
receiving State. 
Under the provisions of the 193& amendment to the lav;, any State may 
arrange through Federal channels, after approval 'oy the Secretary of 
Agriculture as indicated above, to regulate or prohibit the movement into 
