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Regulation 3 provides for thh unlimited entVyR under parrait and with 
provision for inspection, and, ^Lf necessary, disinfection, of certain important 
classes of plants and plant products which can not at present be adequately 
produced in the United States* 
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hegulation 14 maizes provision for the entry, under special permit, of 
any plant or seed not included under regulations 2 and Z for the purpose of 
iveeping tne ofunt^y supplied with new varieties and necessary propagating 
sfocn as a basis for reproduction plantings which will ultimately make the 
unn, ed States independent of foreign supplies* 
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'Reflation 15 recognises the intimate trade relations between the United 
States am Gan&da v anci Mexico.- and 
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under permit and necessary safe¬ 
guards,. for the importation of otherwise prohibited stock from foreign 
countries- contiguous to the United States* 
The only exceptions to Qntr,37 of plants thus provided for are those in¬ 
volved under specific quarantines as, for example, the prohibition of entry of 
and Grossularia from certain countries, am generally of citrus, bamboo, 
banana plants, etc* y but any of the plants prohibited under such quarantines 
may be imported, under permit and adequate safeguards, by or through, the U. S* 
Department of Agriculture for any necessary experimental 9 , scientific or intro¬ 
duction purposes* 
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Bntry of Plants under Regulation 14* 
As already indicated, the object of regulation 14 is to make it possible 
to keep the country supplied with daew varied has ! * and "necessary propagating 
stock* ** These terms are described in regulation 1 under quarantine 57 as 
follows; 
key/ va rieties; A new variety is understood to mean a novelty, i*e*, a 
new plant, "Variety, strain, type, or form, either recognised by the tr^de as 
such or so listed or described in catalogs, trade journals, or other publica¬ 
tions, or duly and properly certified as such by the originator or introducer 
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Pace as a ry ^ propaga t ing stock : Stock of old or standard varieties not 
available in this country and imported for the multiplication of the plants 
in question as ;a nursery or florist enterprise as distdnguished from importa¬ 
tions for the immediate Ur ultimate sale of the stocks actually imported* 
The expression " limited q uantities 11 used in regulation 14 is ‘understood 
to mean, with respect both to new varieties apd necessary propagating stocks, 
such quantities as will supply reasonable needs for the establishment of 
reproduction plantings* 
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