THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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ill the line, but in a (jiiiel sector. Here tilings run along 
smoothly and we are hojiing to be able to stay for the 
much-needed rest. In the meanwhile, the master hand 
has decided to jilay one of his trumps, the ground where 
we spent such anxious hours is way behind, the wedge 
has been pinched oil, and all are wondering and tiying 
to guess where the next trump will be played. We 
haven’t the slightest idea, but know it will come and at 
the proper time. 
With best of love to all. 
As ever your son. 
Hill. 
(Wm. FlemeH;, .Tu.) 
.lackson I’erkins, Newark, N. Y., issued their trade 
list September 14th. 
It is good to note the optimism that is behind the stock 
which this list represents. 
A full business-like catalogue indicates the same con¬ 
dition in the nursery. 
It leads oil' with Hoses in big assortment followed i)y 
vines and perennials sjiecializing on Plilox and Paeonif*s. 
The shrub assortment is very full and shows a line 
stock of named lilacs. 
The tree list contains a good variety of flowering crabs, 
and the fruit list oilers Dwarf Apples on Knglish Para¬ 
dise stocks in lifteen varieties. 
Proposed New Restrictions Covering Imports of Nursery Stock 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Federal Horticultural Board, 
Washington, D. C. 
August 29, 1918. 
Dear Sir: — 
The experts of this Department have given careful considera¬ 
tion to the restrictions which should be placed on the importa¬ 
tion of nursery stock, plants, and seeds into the United States as 
a result of the hearing of May 28, 1918. It is proposed to make 
these restrictions effective on and after June 1, 1919. The pro¬ 
posed quarantine will exclude all plants and plant products for 
propagation from all foreign countries, except as provided for in 
the regulations issued under the quarantine. For your informa¬ 
tion, and for any suggestions which you may care to make, I am 
sending you a copy of the tentative regulations governing the 
importation of such nursery stock, plants and seeds into the 
United States. In the provisional recommendations of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry, submitted as a tentative program of action in 
connection with the notice of hearing, it was provided that some 
four groups of plants, normally imported with earth about the 
roots, should be prohibited entry at future dates; in the case of 
three of these groups beginning July 1, 1919. The regulations as 
now drafted eliminate these groups altogether. Except as to the 
group (Azaleas, etc.) for which a longer period was suggested, 
this is not a wide variation from the tentative program, inas¬ 
much as the regulations now proposed do not go into effect until 
June 1, 1919. Furthermore, under existing war conditions and 
the action of the War Trade Board, importations of plants of all 
of these groups will be greatly limited if not stopped for the 
period of the duration of the war. 
Regulation 2 provides for the unrestricted entry of two groups 
of plants, namely (1) fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant 
products imported for food purposes; and (2) field, vegetable, 
and fiower seeds. 
Regulation 3 provides, under compliance with the conditions 
of the subsequent regulations, for the importation of five groups 
of plants as follows: 
(1) Lily bulbs, lily of the valley, narcissus, hyacinths, 
tulips, and crocus, free from balls of soil or earth. 
(2) Fruit stocks, seedlings, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits 
for reproduction purposes. 
(3) Rose stocks for reproduction purposes, including Manetti, 
Multiflora, Brier Rose, and Rosa Rugosa. 
(4) Nuts, including palm seeds, for oil or reproduction 
purposes. 
(5) Seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade trees, seeds 
of deciduous and evergreen ornamental shrubs, and seeds 
of hardy perennial plants. 
These groups of plants and seeds under regulations 2 and 3 
include the plants and seeds which were represented as essential 
to the floriculture and horticulture of this country, namely, the 
field, vegetable, and flower seeds, and fruit stocks, cuttings, 
scions, etc., and rose stocks for reproduction purposes. 
The subsequent regulations, prescribing conditions of entry of 
the groups of plants enumerated in regulation 3, are based very 
largely on regulations hitherto enforced governing the entry of 
nursery stock. Provision has been made, however, in regulation 
10 for the disinfection of plants offered Lr entry should, in the 
judgment of this Board and the inspectors of the Department of 
Agriculture, such disinfection be necessary. 
The Board will be glad to have your association give careful 
consideration to these regulations and, if it seems desirable, a 
conference can be arranged for a discussion of these regulations. 
It is the wish of the Board to meet any reasonable objections 
which can be presented, and which will not involve a material 
increase of risk of entry of new plant pests. 
The quarantine will provide for the importation, through the 
agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, of plants and 
seeds for experimental or scientific purposes, and by this means 
it will be possible to import novelties or other plants and seeds 
for which special need can be sho\^. This does not mean, how¬ 
ever, that the Department will undertake commercial importa¬ 
tions for private firms. 
Yours very truly, 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman of Board. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE IMPORTA¬ 
TION OP NURSERY STOCK, PLANTS, AND SEEDS INTO 
THE UNITED STATES. 
(Effective on and after June 1, 1919, and superseding the 
regulations heretofore issued governing the importation of 
nursery stock.) 
Rkgulatiox 1. Defixitiox. 
For the purpose of these regulations the words plants and 
seeds” shall wherever used include 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 also 
field vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other her¬ 
baceous plants, bulbs, and roots, and other plants and plant pro¬ 
ducts for propagation. 
ReGULATIOX 2.PLAXTS AXD SEEDS FOR WHICH PERMIT IS XOT REQUIRED 
The following classes of plants and seeds, not including, how¬ 
ever, the particular plants and seeds named in Appendix A, 
which are governed by special quarantines now in force, nor such 
as may hereafter be made the subject of special quaiantines, 
may be imported without permit or other compliance with these 
regulations. 
(1) Fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products Im¬ 
ported for food purposes. 
(2) Field, vegetable, and flower seeds. 
REGUmVTION 3. PeAXTS and SIXDS for which PERMIT IS REQUIRED. 
The following plants and seeds, not including, however, those 
names in. Appendix A, which are governed by special quarantine 
