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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
STATE LAWS 
The Following is a Synopsis of the Laws and Regulations Gov¬ 
erning the Shipment, Inspection and Certification of 
Nursery Stock in the United States and Canada 
Prepared by George G. Atwood, Chief, Bureau of Horticulture and 
Inspection, Albany, New York. 
UNITED STATES.—All persons who intend to import trees or 
plants from any foreign country should first apply for and re¬ 
ceive a permit from the Federal Horticultural Board, U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D, C., under the Plant 
Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912. 
A permit should be applied for in advance. This permit 
should preferably be taken out by the person who is to receive 
the goods at the final destination. A broker or commission 
merchant may take out a permit in his own name, if he imports 
for his own account, or he may act as agent for and take out the 
permit in the name of the actual purchaser. The importer 
must see that each package on arrival at the port of entry bears 
the proper certificate of foreign inspection. He must also see 
that each package is marked in accordance with Section 3 of the 
act. As a matter of convenience, this marking should contain 
also the additional information called in Section 4, to avoid the 
trouble of re-marking before the goods can be delivered for in¬ 
terstate shipment. The certificate of inspection must be, and 
the marking preferably should be on the goods before they leave 
the foreign port. 
On the arrival of the stock, and before shipping or removing it 
from the port of entry, he must advise the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture and the proper state inspectors in accordance with Section 
2 and Regulation 8. He must see that each container is marked 
in accordance with Section 4; that is, in addition to the infor¬ 
mation in the label of entry, each container must bear the name 
and address of the consignee at destination, where the stock is to 
be inspected by the state, territorial or district official. 
Any person receiving imported nursery stock and reshipping 
it, interstate, before it has been inspected by a duly authorized 
state, territorial or district inspector or officer, is required, prior 
to making such reshipment, to notify the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture and the duly authorized inspector or other officer of the 
state, territory, or district, to which the nursery stock is to be 
reshipped, giving the number of cases, the bale numbers and 
marks, the quantity and kind of nursery stock, and the name and 
address of the consignee. If possible, the permit number under 
which the stock was imported, and the name and address of the 
foreign shipper should also be given. 
Failure to meet the requirements of the law, as outlined above, 
subjects importers or persons making interstate shipments to 
the penalties fixed in Section 10 of the act. 
A pamphlet entitled, “Rules and Regulations under the Plant 
Quarantine Act: General, Including Nursery Stock,” containing 
the regulations governing the importation of nursery stock into 
the United States and the text of the Plant Quarantine Act of 
August 20, 1912, as amended March 4, 1913, may be obtained on 
application to the United States Department of Agriculture, Federal 
Horticultural Board, Washington, D. C. 
NURSERY STOCK BY MAIL 
The following is a copy of order 6313 of Postmaster-General 
dated May 29, 1912, amending paragraph 8, section 496 of postal 
laws and regulations, to read as follows: 
Nursery stock, including florists’ stock, trees, shrubs, 
plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, bulbs and roots 
(which may carry injurious insects), may be admitted to the 
mails only when accompanied by a certificate from a state 
or government inspector to the effect that the nursery from 
which said nursery stock is shipped has within a year been 
inspected and found free from injurious insects. 
TREATMENT TO BE ACCORDED TO PROHIBITED NURSERY 
STOCK RECEIVED IN THE MAILS FORM FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES. 
Office of Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Washington, 
June 1, 1915. 
This Department and the Department of Agriculture are in 
receipt frequently, both directly and through postmasters, of 
requests from importers of nursery stock that delivery be 
authorized of certain mail shipments of prohibited plants or 
plant products. It is understood that pending the receipt by 
such importers of replies to their requests, the shipments in 
question are withheld from return by postmasters notwith¬ 
standing the instructions of the Department that all packages 
of prohibited nursery stock received in the mails from 
abroad shall be appropriately indorsed and returned to 
origin immediately. 
Postmasters are enjoined, therefore, to comply strictly 
with the instructions referred to by declining to withhold 
from return any prohibited nursery stock in order to afford 
an opportunity to the importer to communicate with the De¬ 
partment with the view of having an exception made in any 
particular case. 
The term “nursery stock” as applied to the prohibition 
in question includes all growing or living plants, seeds and 
other plant products, for propagation, except field, vegetable 
and flower seeds. It includes also bulbs, roots and tubers 
and, with the exceptions noted, the seeds of all trees, shrubs 
or other plants. The only plants or plant products excepted 
from the prohibition are those ordered by, or intended for, 
and addressed to the “Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro¬ 
duction, United States Department of Agriculture, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.” 
In this connection, reference is had to the notice of this 
office printed on page 2 of the Postal Guide (supplement) for 
January, 1914, and to the notice on pages 129 and 130 of the 
Postal Guide for July, 1914. 
The widest possible publicity should be given to this notice. 
JOSEPH STEWART, 
Second Assistant Postmaster-General. 
ALABAMA.—A signed copy of inspection certificate must be 
filed with the secertary of the Alabama State Board of Horticul¬ 
ture, and an Alabama license obtained, also Alabama tags. Nur¬ 
sery and dealers’ license fee, $10.00. Agents must obtain license 
through their principal. License fee for agents, $1.00. Dealers 
must designate nurseries from whom stock handled is purchased. 
A tag must be attached to every separate order or lot of nursery 
stock delivered in the state. Tags are furnished at cost: first 
one hundred, 65 cents postpaid; five hundred, $1.60; one thousand, 
$2.20, sent collect by express. 
All scions and bud sticks must be properly fumigated. The 
following insects and fungous diseases are quarantined against: 
San Jose scale, new peach scale, woolly aphis, crown gall, black 
knot, peach yellows, peach and plum rosette, citrus canker, 
white fly, gypsy moth and browntail moth. Trees liable to scale 
infection must be properly fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. 
All kinds of citrus trees are quarantined except Satsuma orange 
and Kumquat. The two latter may be shipped from localities 
free from citrus canker upon obtaining special citrus permit, 
and upon compliance with the special rules covering shipments 
of such trees and other hosts of white fly, or citrus canker, which 
is, that such trees be completely defoliated and dipped (except 
roots) in 6-4-50 Bordeaux mixture. 
Special citrus permit tags are supplied at $1.00 a hundred; 50 
cents a hundred for additional lots. These must be used in 
addition to regular tags on all shipments containing citrus trees. 
Prof. Ernest Walker, State Horticulturist, Auburn, Ala. 
ARIZONA.—Nursery stock shipped into the state must be 
prominently labeled with the name and the address of both the 
shipper and the consignee, and must be accompanied by a valid 
certificate of inspection or a copy of such certificate. Ship¬ 
ments into the state, consisting of or containing plants not 
grown in the locality from which shipment was made, must, in 
addition, specify where such plants were grown. 
State quarantine orders of interest to nurserymen prohibit: 
(No. 1) the importation of stock from sections infested by the 
alfalfa weevil; (No. 4) rooted grape vines from north of the north 
line of San Bernardino, Kern and San Luis Abispo counties, Cali¬ 
fornia; (No. 8) the importation of citrus nursery stock from all 
other states and territories and of cape jessamine, privets and 
rubber plants from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, all 
states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and Yuba county, Cali¬ 
fornia. Other quarantines relate to the Mexican orange mag¬ 
got (quarantine made practically inoperative owing to estab¬ 
lishment of Federal quarantine), cotton boll weevil, date palm 
scales and citrus canker. None of these latter concern ship¬ 
ments of nursery stock. 
All shipments of living plants into the state of Arizona are in¬ 
spected by Arizona state inspectors and not delivered until a 
certificate of release is issued in each case to the common car¬ 
rier and to the consignee. If trees or plants are infested or in¬ 
fected with insect pests or plant diseases of general occurrence 
in the section of the state where the shipment is received, treat¬ 
ment to eradicate, or the separation of the infested or diseased 
plants or trees, is in most cases permissible; otherwise all plants 
or trees of the kind found to be infested or diseased are held in 
quarantine and are shipped from the state or destroyed at the 
owner’s option. Copies of quarantine orders furnished upon ap- 
lication. A. W. Morrill, State Entomologist, Phoenix, Arizona. 
ARKANSAS.—Shipment of nursery stock into the state must 
be accompanied by a copy of the valid certificate of inspection, 
and must bear the name and address of the consignor and con¬ 
signee with a statement of the contents of the shipment; all ship¬ 
ments not so labeled or tagged must be refused for shipment by 
the carrier. Carriers bringing into the state shipments of nur¬ 
sery stock which originated in foreign countries or foreign pos- 
