THE NATIONAL NURvSERYMAN 
369 
FEDERAL INSPECTION 
Proposed Rules and Regulations 
Actincr under the authority eonferred upon him by the 
Federal Inspection bill which was reported in the September 
number of the National Nurseryman as having become a 
law on August 20th, the Secretary of Agriculture as ap¬ 
pointed C. L. Marlatt, Chairman, W. A. Orton, A. F. 
Burgess, Geo. B. Sudworth and Peter Bisset as members of 
the Federal Horticultural Board. 
The Board promptly quarantined Pinus strobus, Pinus 
monticola, Pinus Lambertiana and Pinus cembra, because 
of the White Pine-Blister Rust and these pines cannot be 
imported into the ^United States hereafter. 
They have also fonnulated certain Rules and Regulations 
and a form of Application for permit to Import. ’The pennit 
for same they have submitted to different nurserymen 
for the purpose of getting criticisms and suggestions. 
In brief, it is required that before importing any nursery 
stock, application on one of the Department forms must be 
made and as the form is the essence of the whole thing we 
reproduce same herewith. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
Washington, D. C. 
Application for Permit to Import Nursery Stock 
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To the Secretary of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
Sir: 
I respectfully request that a permit be issued for the importation 
of nursery stock as follows: 
Quantity. 
General Nature. 
Age or 
Height. 
Fruit trees. 
Fruit tree stocks. 
Grape vines. 
Bush fruits. 
Roses. 
Rose stocks. 
Forest and ornamental deciduous trees. 
Ornamental deciduous shrubs. 
Coniferous evergreen trees . 
Evergreen trees other than conifers. 
Evergreen shrubs other than conifers. 
Stocks, cuttings, or seedlings not otherwise specified 
Country and district where grown 
Name and address of shipper. 
Port of entry. 
Approximate date of arrival. 
Name of importer. 
N ame of consignee... 
Destination. 
* Very respectfully. 
Application may be made by telegraph, in which case the informa¬ 
tion requested above should I'e given. 
♦Pinus strobus L., Pinus monticrila Dougl., Pinus Lambertiana Dough, and Pinus 
cembra L., are excluded and can not be imported, because of White Pine Blister Rust. 
The temr “nursery stoek” shall inelude all field-grown 
florists’ stoek, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, 
buds or other parts of a woody nature, fruit pits and other 
seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other 
plants and plant produets for propagation, exeept field, 
vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other 
herbaeeous plants, bulbs, and roots. Field grown florists’ 
stoek, as mentioned above, includes all plants grown outside 
of greenhouses, hotbeds, or eold frames covered with glass, 
exeejit herbaceous perennial, bedding plants, sueh as geran- 
niums, earnations, pansies, etc., bulbs, tubers and corms. 
On approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, a permit will 
be furnished to the applicant, one copy will be given the 
applicant, one copy to the collector at the port of entry, and 
the third filed with the application in the Department. The 
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permit will be void three months from date of issue. 
Entry of nursery stock will not be allowed unless accom¬ 
panied by a Certificate issued by a properly authorized 
official of the country from which it was shipped, stating that 
it has been thoroughly inspected by him or under his direction 
within three months preceding date of shipment. 
All boxes and bales must be correctly marked to show the 
general nature and quantity of the contents, the locality 
and country where grown, the name and address of the con¬ 
signor and the name and address of the consignee. 
Immediately upon the entry and before removal from the 
port the person receiving the stock, shall notify the Secretar}^ 
of Agriculture, stating the nature arid quantity of the nursery 
stock, the country and locality where grown, the date of 
entry and the name and address of the Consignee to whom it 
is proposed to forward the nursery stock together with the 
name of the carrier by which shipment is contemplated and 
the proposed date of delivery for transportation. At the 
same time a similar notice must be sent to the Horticultural 
Inspector or to such other official of the State, Territory or 
District to which the nursery stock is to be shipped as the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall designate. 
All invoices of nursery stock shipped to the United States 
shall bear the number of the permit issued by the Secretary 
of Agriculture and have attached to them a declaration of 
the shii^per, made before a United States Consular Officer, as 
follows: 
“I.the undersigned, do solemnly and truly 
declare that I am the.of the stock herein 
mentioned and descrilied, and that I believe it to consist of 
nursery stock which contains no injurious plant disease or 
insect pests.’’ 
“The stock was grown in.by.during 
the year.and was ex])orted.and consigned to 
. The marks on the package are true and the nur¬ 
sery stock was inspected on . by .and 
believed by him to be free from injurious ]ilant disease and 
insect iicsts. This shi]imcnt is offered under iiermit No., 
issued by the Secretary of Agriculture.’’ 
