THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The United States Department of Agriculture has issued 
a revised circular No. 41, under date of December 3d, 1912, 
giving the rules and regulations for carrying out the Plant 
Quarantine Act, and it also gives a list of State Inspection 
officials with addresses. 
CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION NO. 2 TO IMPORTERS 
OF NURSERY STOCK 
As a result of the experience gained during the last two 
or three months, it has seemed advisable to slightly amend 
the rules and regulations for carrying out the Federal Plant 
Quarantine Act. The object of this circular is to point out 
specifically, for the information and guidance of importers, 
the changes made in the regulations. 
No material changes are made in Regulations i to 5, 
inclusive. 
Reg. I. —No change. 
Reg. 2.—No material change. 
Reg. 3.—Definition of port of entry added. 
Reg. 4.—Addition of the explanatory words “at port of 
entry”; bonded period to obtain permit extended from 10 
to 20 days; cn*ors corrected in line 8—“arrival” changed to 
“entry.” 
Reg. 5.—Addition of explanatory paragraph relating to 
shipments in bond. 
Reg. 6.—Change to indicate more plainly the . require¬ 
ments in force after July i, 1913, in relation to the official 
inspection certificate and limiting the importation of nursery 
stock from countries having no provision for such official 
certification, such as certain Asiatic and Central and South 
American countries. 
Reg. 7.—Made to indicate more explicitly the nature of 
the certificate of inspection which will be required after 
July I, 1913. 
Reg. 8.—Amended at the suggestion of Customs Bureau, 
Treasury Department, to require the notice of importer or 
broker to the Secretary of Agriculture to be transmitted 
through the Collector of Customs at port of entry. This 
notice is to be given to the collector with other entry papers, 
and will be compared with the invoice and forwarded by 
the collector to the Secretary of Agriculture. This will 
accomplish both the notice required from the Treasury 
Department to the Secretary of Agriculture and the notice 
from the ■'mporter to the Secretary of Agriculture on one 
blank in one report, and will save the importer the labor and 
cost of mailing this report. 
The notice required of the importer to the State Inspector 
must, as is now required, be sent by him direct to the proper 
State official. 
Blanks for these two reports—namely, to the Secretary 
of Agriculture through the Collector of Customs and to the 
State Inspector—will be furnished by the Collectors of 
Customs. 
There is added to this regulation an explanatory para¬ 
graph in relation to the requirements of the act governing 
the reshipment, interstate, of imported nursery stock, which 
has not been inspected at the destination reported from the 
port of entry. 
Reg. 9.—Changed merely to lessen the requirements by 
eliminating some of the information originally provided for. 
A paragraph is added, making it possible in the absence of 
the declaration to deliver the goods under bond in the same 
manner as provided for a lacking permit. 
It will be noted that practically all of these changes are 
corrections of errors, explanatory, or lessening the require¬ 
ments. The only exception is the limitation placed upon 
the importation from countries where no inspection certificate 
is possible, and this can be corrected by any of these countries 
whenever commercial possibilities indicate the need. This 
limitation will not affect ordinary commercial nursery im¬ 
portations. 
Federal Horticultural Board. 
Approved: 
James Wilson 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
October 16, 1912. 
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NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
BRIEF NOTICE OF BULLETIN 350 
Bulletin No. 350 of the Station at Geneva discusses an 
entirely new line of work,—apple breeding. It gives des¬ 
criptions of fourteen new varieties from crosses of known 
parents, with a discussion of the apparent inheritance of 
characters, thus making it of interest to both apple growers 
and students of breeding. It may be secured, in either 
regular or popular edition, by addressing the Station. 
REVIEW OF BULLETIN NO. 350 
Scientific apple-breeding, or even careful work along this 
line by amateurs, has hitherto been practically unknown; 
so that we have exceedingly little knowledge as to how our 
very numerous varieties of this fruit have arisen and even 
less information that would guide us in producing new sorts. 
Undoubtedly most of the apples we grow now are chance 
seedlings from ‘unknown parents, the few desirable types 
from thousands or even hundreds of thousands of seedlings 
whose growth to fruiting and selection or destruction has 
meant waste in time, attention and land occupied; while the 
final results have given no principles to govern future work. 
If experiments made at the Station at Geneva are reliable, 
much of this economic waste in originating new varieties 
may be avoided by crossing known parents. Bulletin No. 
350 of this Station gives descriptions of fourteen new varie¬ 
ties, as good or better than their' parents, that came from 
148 seedlings, the result of crossing eleven selected varieties. 
Nearly as many more seedlings are retained for further test¬ 
ing as promising kinds. This large percentage of good or 
