APPENDIX 
Requirem en ts for Mailing Plants and Plant Products 
Under the postal law? and regulations, nursery stock, including all 
field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 
scions, "buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees 
or shrubs, and other plants ah^ plant products for propagation, including 
strawberry plants ( except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding 
plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots), nay 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 
be^n inspected within r year and found free from injurious insects and 
plant diseases. Parcels containing such nursery stock must be plainly 
marked to show the nature of the contents and the name and address of the 
sender. (Postal Lews and Regulations 19^-0, sec. 595-) Inspection and 
certification must be done by a plant quarantine official of the State of 
origin. An individual mailing of such plants or plant products, if from 
uninsi-ected premises, will also be accepted upon examination and certifi- 
cation by a State plant quarantine official. The address of the Hawaii 
plant quarantine official is- given in the preceding summary. 
Terminal Inspection of Mail S hipment:? o f Plants and Plant Products 
(Act Mar. U, 1915i a s amended June U, I936; Postal Laws 
and Regulations 19^0, sec. 596) 
Establishment of Terminal Inspec tion. — Any State desiring to operate 
under the provisions of the terminal inspection law so as to regulate the 
movement of mail shipments of plants and plant products into (or within) 
the State may, after having provided therefor at State expense a.nd having 
designated one or more places where inspection will be maintained, arrange 
to have such mail shipment? turned over to State plant quarantine inspectors 
for examination at designated inspection points. Application will be made 
to the Secretary of Agriculture by submitting a list of plants and plant 
products pn:\ the plant pests transmitted thereby, which are to be examined. 
The list, when approved in whole or in part, will be transmitted to the 
Postmaster 3-enoral whereupon postmasters will be informed a.nd instructed. 
Anyone mailing a parcel containing any plants or plant products ad- 
dressed to any place within a State maintaining terminal inspection there- 
of is required, under the law, to have the ^aicel plainly marked- on- the 
outside to show the nature of the contents. Materials shipped under Federal 
quarantine certificates issued by the 3ureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine may be exempted from terminal inspection at the option of the 
receiving State. 
Under the provisions of the 19 3^ amendment to the law, any State may 
arrange through Federal channels, after approval by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as indicated above, to regulate or prohibit the movement into 
