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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
quantity of the contents, the country and district where 
the same was grown, the name and address of the shipper, 
owner, or person shipping or forwmrding the same, and the 
name and address of the consignee. 
Sec. 6. That no person, finn, or corporation shall ship 
or deliver for shi]jment to any common carrier, nor shall any 
common carrier accept for transportation or transport from 
one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into 
another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, 
any such imported nursery stock, the case, box, package, 
crate, bale, or bundle whereof is not plainly marked so as to 
show the nature and quantity of the contents, the name 
and address of the consignee, and the country or district 
where such stock was grown. 
Sec. 7. That the Federal Horticultural Commission be, 
and is hereby, authorized to make such rules and regulations 
as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this 
Act. 
Sec. 8. That whenever, in order to prevent the introduc¬ 
tion from any foreign country into the United States or any 
of its possessions of any tree, plant or fruit disease, or of 
any injurious insect, new or not theretofore widely pre¬ 
valent or distributed within and throughout the United 
States, the Horticultural Commission shall determine that 
it is necessary to forbid the importation into the United 
States or any of its possessions of nursery stock or of any 
class of fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, and seeds from a 
country where such disease or insect infestation exists, it shall 
promulgate such determination, specifying the country and 
district and the class of nursery stock or the class of fruits, 
vegetables, bulbs, plants, or seeds, which, in the opinion of 
the Commission should be excluded, and, following the 
promulgation of such determination by the said Commission 
and until the withdrawal of the said promulgation by it, the 
importation of the class of nursery stock or of the class of 
fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, or seeds specified in the said 
promiilgation, from the country and district therein named, 
regardless of the use for which the same is intended, is hereby 
prohibited, and until the withdrawal of the said promulgation 
by the said Commission, and notwithstanding that such nur¬ 
sery stock, fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, or seeds be accom¬ 
panied by a certificate of inspection from the country of 
importation, no person, firm, or corporation shall import 
or offer for entry into the United States from any foreign 
country specified in such promulgation any of the class of 
nursery stock or of the class of fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, 
or seeds named therein, regardless of the use for which the 
same is intended. Provided, That before the Federal 
Horticultural Commission shall promulgate its determina¬ 
tion that it is necessary to forbid the importation into the 
United States of the articles named in this section, it shall 
on request of interested parties give a public hearing under 
such rules and regulations as the said commission shall 
prescribe on the question, at which hearing any party in 
interest may appear and be heard, either in person or by 
attorney. 
Sec. 9. That the Federal Horticultural Commission is 
authorized and directed to quarantine any State or Territory 
or the District of Columbia, or any portion thereof, when it 
shall determine the fact that a dangerous plant disease or 
insect infestation, new to or not theretofore widely prevalent 
or distributed within and throughout the United States 
exists, in such State or Territory, or the District of Columbia; 
and the said Commission is directed to give notice of the estab¬ 
lishment of such qriarantine to common carriers doing 
business in or through such quarantined area, and shall 
publish in such newspapers in the quarantined area as it 
shall select notice of the establishment of quarantine; 
that no person, firm, or corporation shall ship or offer for 
shipment to any common carrier, nor shall any common 
carrier receive for transportation or transport, nor shall 
any person, firm, or corporation carry or transport from 
any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Colum¬ 
bia, or from the quarantined portion thereof, into or through 
any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, 
any nursery stock or any fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants 
or seeds, except as hereinafter provided; that it shall be 
unlawful to move, or allow to be moved, any nursery stock, 
or any fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, or seeds specified 
in the notice of quarantine hereinbefore provided, and 
regardless of the use for which the same is intended, from 
any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Colum¬ 
bia, or quarantined portion thereof, into or through any 
other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, in 
manner or method or under conditions other than those 
prescribed by the Federal Horticultural Commission; that 
it shall be the duty of the Horticultural Commission to 
make and promulgate rules and regulations which shall 
permit and govern the inspection, disinfection, certification, 
and method and manner of delivery and shipment of nursery 
stock, or any fruits, vegetables, bulbs, plants, or seeds 
specified in the notice of quarantine hereinbefore provided, 
and regardless of the use for which the same is intended, 
from a quarantined State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, or quarantined portion thereof, into or through 
any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia; 
and the said Commission shall give notice of such rules 
and regulations as hereinbefore provided in this section 
for the notice of the establishment of quarantine. Provided, 
That before the Federal Horticultural Commission shall 
promulgate its determination that it is necessary to quaran¬ 
tine any State, Territory, district or portion thereof, under 
the authority given in this section, it shall on request of 
interested parties give a public hearing on the question, at 
which hearing any interested party may appear and be 
heard, either in person or by an attorney. 
Sec. 10. That whenever in this Act the term “nursery 
stock’’ is used it shall be construed as including field-grown 
florists’ stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, 
buds, fruit-pits, seeds of fruit or ornamental trees 
or shrubs or other plants or plant products for pro¬ 
pagation, except vegetable and flower seeds, bedding 
plants, and other soft-wooded herbaceous plants, bulbs, 
and roots: Provided, That whenever the Federal Horti- 
cxiltural Commission shall determine that the unrestricted 
importation of any fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, 
plants, or other plant products not included by the term 
“nursery stock’’ as herein defined may result in the entry 
