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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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 I'liited States Department of Apriciiltare, Federal 
Norticnitaral Board, Washiiujton, D. U. 
NUKSKKY STOCK BY MAIL 
Nursery stock, including buds and cuttings, can only be sent by 
mail when accompanied by a valid certificate of inspection. For 
further information apply to Joseph Stewart, Second Assistant 
Postmaster-General, Washington, D. C. 
ALABAMA. —All nurseries in the state are inspected annually, 
or oftener, as may be desirable. Before shipping stock into the 
state, nurserymen must file signed and satisfactory copy of in¬ 
spection certificate, secure official Alabama tags and take out 
nurserymen’s license, which is issued upon payment of a fee of 
ten dollars ($10.00). Agents are granted license only through 
nurserymen represented on payment of a fee of one dollar 
($1.00). Tags are furnished at cost price—first 100 for eighty 
cents ($0.80); 200 for one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25), 
postpaid; 1,000 for three dollars and forty-five cents ($3.45), sent 
collect by express. The following insects, diseases, and pests are 
(luarantined against: San Jose scale, new peach scale, woolly 
aphis, crown gall, black knot, peach yellows, peach and plum 
rosette, white fly, gipsy moth, brown tail moth, camphor thrips, 
cottony cushion scale, and citrus canker. Nematode galls have 
been placed on the proscribed list of diseases of nursery stock. 
It will be necessary for shijipers to supply duplicate invoices of 
eve.y shipment of fOO pecan trees, 250 apple trees, and 500 peach 
trees sent to a grower in Alabama. One of these invoices must be 
cent to the office of the State Horticulturist. 
Alabama nurseries are required to secure a special permit for 
all citrus trees and a special permit tag must be attached (fur¬ 
nished at cost of tags) to each box, bundle, or bale, in addition to 
the usual Alabama nursery inspection tag, with the name and 
address of the consignor and consignee. Quarantine against all 
citrus for other states. Florida nurseries able to pass inspection 
by state authorities excepted. G. C. Sturdier, State Horticultur¬ 
ist, 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. Shipments 
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 now in effect and of interest to nurs¬ 
erymen 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 
Obispo counties, California; (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, California; (No. 11) the importation of olive trees. 
Other quarantines relate to the Mexican orange maggot (quaran¬ 
tine made practically inoperative owing to establishment of Fed¬ 
eral quarantine), cotton boll weevil, date palm scales, and citrus 
canker. None of these latter concern shipments of nursery stock 
into Arizona from outside sources. 
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 carrier 
and to the consignee. If trees or plants are infested or infected 
with insect pests or plant diseases of general occurrence in the 
section of the state where the shipment is received, treatment 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 quaran¬ 
tine and are shipped from the state or destroyed at the owner’s 
option. Copies of quarantine orders furnished upon application. 
A. W. Morrill, State Entomologist, Phoenix, Arizona. 
ARKANSAS. —Shipments of nursery stock into the state must 
be accompanied by permit tags issued by the Chief Inspector and 
sold at cost, together with a statement as to the amount and kind 
of stock, and a certificate of inspection. Out-state nurserymen 
must file copy of inspection certificate and obtain permit to ship, 
and agents’ permits. 
k'oreign nursery stock must be inspected within the state. 
Carriers are forbidden to move nursery stock in violation of 
these conditions. J. Lee Hewitt, Chief Inspector, Fayetteville, 
Arkansas. 
CALIFORNIA. —Shipments of nursery stock into California are 
held by transportation companies until inspected by the state of¬ 
ficials. All packages must be marked with the name and address 
of the shipper, name of the consignor, and the name of the coun¬ 
try, state, or territory where the contents were grown. Peach, 
apricot, and almond trees from districts where yellow and rosette 
are known to exist shall be refused entry and shall be destroyed 
or returned to the shipper. White pine trees, currants, and 
gooseberries from points east of North Dakota, South Dakota, 
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas are refused entry into 
California for reason of white pine blister rust, and must be re¬ 
turned to shipper or destroyed. Notice of shipment of nursery 
stock to California should be sent to the following address, and 
also to the quarantine guardians at the point of destination. 
All nurserymen importing plants or trees into California for 
propagation purposes must first secure a permit from the State 
Commissioner of Horticulture. A special number will be given 
to each nurseryman, which number must be attached to every 
shipment of stock consigned into the state. There must also be 
filed with the application for permit a certificate of inspection 
signed by a duly authorized inspector of the state from which 
shipments are made. Commission of Horticulture, Geo. P. Wel¬ 
don, Chief Deputy, Forum Building, Sacramento, Cal. 
COLORADO. —The State Entomologist has general supervision 
of the inspection of nurseries and orchards to prevent the intro¬ 
duction and spread of injurious insects and plant diseases. 
County horticultural inspectors in fruit-growing counties of the 
state are appointed by the county commissioners, after passing a 
satisfactory examination given by the State Entomologist, under 
whose direction they work. All nursery stock coming into the 
state must bear certificates of inspection and fumigation and on 
arrival in counties that have inspectors is turned over to them 
and released to consignee if it passes inspection. C. P. Gillette, 
State Entomologist, Fort Collins, Colo. 
CONNECTICUT. —All nursery stock shipped into this state 
shall bear on each package a certificate that the contents of said 
package have been inspected by a state or government officer 
and that said contents appear free from all dangerous insects and 
disease. If nursery stock is brought into the state without such 
a certificate, the express, freight or other transportation company 
or person shall, before delivering shipment to consignee, notify 
the State Entomologist of the facts, giving name and address of 
consignee, origin of shipment, and approximate number of cars, 
boxes, or packages, and probable date of the delivery to the con¬ 
signee. The State Entomologist may cause the inspection and, 
if infested, the treatment of the stock. No person, firm, or cor¬ 
poration shall unpack any woody field-grown nursery or florists’ 
stock brought into this state from foreign countries except in the 
presence of an inspector, unless given permission to do so by said 
State Entomologist or one of his deputies. If such stock is found 
infested with any dangerous pests the State Entomologist may at 
his discretion order it treated. Dr. W. E. Britton, State Ento¬ 
mologist, New Haven, Conn. 
DELAWARE. —Shipments of nursery stock into the state 
must bear a certificate of inspection and also a certificate stating 
that the stock has been properly fumigated. All nursery stock 
not accompanied by proper certificates may be held by the trans¬ 
portation companies until it can be inspected. Wesley Webb, 
Secretary, State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Del. 
FLORIDA. —To each package of nursery stock shipped into 
the state must be attached a Florida permit certificate tag and-a 
certificate issued by the state inspection official of the state 
where grown. These tags may be secured at cost from the un¬ 
dersigned by the deposit of a satisfactory certificate of inspection 
signed in ink by the proper inspection official of the state of issue. 
A duplicate invoice covering each shipment made into this state 
must be filed in the office of the Nursery Inspector at Gainesville, 
Fla., promptly after the shipment has gone forward. The ship¬ 
ment of citrus into Florida is prohibited. All host plants of San 
•Jose scale must be fumigated before shipment. The entrance of 
all infested or diseased stock is prohibited. All plants capable 
of defoliation must be defoliated. Shipments must be completely 
ai :1 securely covered or wrapped. Nursery Inspection Circular 
No. 5 explains all of the details and will be sent free to those 
applying to F. ]\I. O’Byrne, Nursery Inspector, State Plant Board, 
Gainesville, Fla. 
GEORGIA. —Nurseries are inspected annually. A signed dupli¬ 
cate of inspection certificate, together with a statement by the 
nurserymen that all stock intended for Georgia will be fumigat¬ 
ed in accordance with directions furnished them, must be filed in 
the office of the State Entomologist. Official tags of the Georgia 
State Board of Entomology will be furnished through the State 
Entomologist at the following prices: One hundred tags, 75 
cents, postpaid; 200 tags, $1.00, postpaid; 300 tags, $1.25, post¬ 
paid; 500 tags, $1.50, sent by express, collect; 1,000 tags, $22.50, 
sent by express, collect. Each shipment of nursery stock into 
the state of Georgia must bear the official tag of the Georgia 
State Board of Entomology and also a duplicate certificate of 
inspection of the state from which the shipment is made. There 
is a strict quarantine against all citrus stock from Florida, Ala¬ 
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, except on special certi- 
