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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Q. S. Dept, of HgKculturc 
GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH QUARANTINE 
In our last issue we gave an accoun^kthe Hearing before the Horti¬ 
cultural Board at Washington, also off’Hnother page of the same issue 
the territory it was proposed to quarantine so that it is not necessary to 
repeat. The following are the Regulations as finally passed and 
published in Circular issued November 13th, 1912, under the title 
“Notice of Quarantine No. 4, Domestic.” 
GIPSY MOTH REGULATIONS 
Coniferous trees of the area quarantined for the gipsy moth, such 
as spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, juniper (cedar), and arborvitae (white 
cedar), known and described as “Christmas trees,” and parts thereof, 
and decorative plants of the area quarantiried for the gipsy moth, 
such as holly and laurel, known and described as “Christmas greens 
or greenery,” shall not be moved or allowed to move interstate to 
points outside the quarantined area. 
Forest plant products of the area quarantined for the gipsy moth, 
including logs, tan bark, posts, poles, railroad ties, cordwood, and 
lumber, and field-grown florist’s stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, 
and other plants and plant products for planting or propagation, of 
the area quarantined for the gipsy moth, excepting buds, fruit pits, 
seeds of fruit, and ornamental trees and shrubs, field, vegetable and 
flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants and roots 
shall not be moved or allowed to move interstate to any point outside 
the quarantined area unless and until such plants and plant products 
have bfeen inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture 
and pronounced free from the gipsy moth. 
BROWN-TAIL MOTH REGULATIONS 
Deciduous trees or shrubs of the area quarantined for the brown- 
tail moth, or parts thereof, including all deciduous field-grown florist’s 
stock, vines, cuttings, grafts, and scions shall not be moved or allowed 
to move interstate to points outside the quarantined area, unless and 
until such plants and plant products have been inspected by the United 
States Department of Agriculture and pronounced to be free from the 
brown-tail moth. 
GENERAL REGULATIONS 
(1) Every car, box, bale, or other container of plants and plant 
products of which inspection is required by these regulations shall 
be plainly marked with the name and address of the consignor and 
the name and address of the consignee, and shall bear a certificate 
showing that the contents have been inspected by the United States 
Department of Agriculture and found to be free from moth infestation. 
(2) Carload and other bulk shipments of plants and plant products 
for which inspection is required by these regulations shall not be trans¬ 
ported or offered for transportation interstate by cars, boats, and other 
vehicles, unless each shipment is accompanied by a certificate showing 
that the plants and plant products have been inspected by the United 
States Department of Agriculture and pronounced to be free from moth 
infestation. The inspection certificates shall accompany the waybills, 
conductors’ manifests, memoranda, or bills of lading pertaining to such 
shipments made by cars or boats. 
(3) Certificates of inspection will issue only for plants and plant 
products which have been actually inspected by the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and the use of such certificates in connection 
with plants and plant products which have not been so inspected is 
prohibited. 
(4) YTiere inspection and certification are required by these regula¬ 
tions, inspection and certification by an inspector or other agent of 
the Federal Horticultural Board are meant, and such inspection and 
certification will be furnished without the payment of fees or charges 
of any nature. 
(5) Plants and plant products, of which the interstate movement is 
prohibited or restricted by these regulations and which are grown 
outside the areas quarantined for the gipsy moth or the brown-tail 
moth, may be shipped interstate from points within the quarantined 
areas to points outside the quarantined areas under permit from the 
Secretary of Agriculture. Permits will issue only for plants and plant 
products which are not infested with the gipsy moth or brown-tail moth 
and transportation companies shall not accept or move interstate from 
within the quarantined areas such plants and plant products grown 
outside the quarantined areas, unless each shipment is accompanied by 
a permit issued by the superintendent of moth work* at Boston, Mass. 
(6) Persons intending to move or allow to be moved interstate 
plants and plant products for which certificates of inspection or permits 
are required by these regulations, will make application therefor as far 
as possible in advance of the probable date of shipment. Applications 
should show the nature and quantity of the plants or plant products it is 
proposed to move, together with their exact location and, if practicable, 
the contemplated date of shipment. Applicants for inspection will be 
required to place the articles to be inspected so that they can be readily 
examined. If not so placed inspection will be refused. 
(7) The interstate movement of all classes of plants and plant 
products entirely within the area quarantined for the gipsy moth and the 
brown-tail moth will be permitted without restrictions, other than those 
which may be imposed by State officials at points of destination. 
On and after November 25, 1912, and until further notice, by virtue 
of said section 8 of the act of Congress approved August 20, 1912, it 
shall be unlawful to move in interstate commerce any of the above- 
described plants or plant products from the areas herein quarantined, 
except in accordance with these regulations and amendments thereto. 
Done at Washington this 5th day of November, 1912. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
WiLLET M. Hays, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
*Blanks on which to make application for inspection or for permits will be furnished 
upon request by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, 
6 Beacon Street, Boston Mass. 
[No. 4.] 
THE TERM “HORTICULTURIST” 
As to what really constitutes a bona-fide horticulturist has 
long been a debatable question. It is one of those evergreen 
topics that are discussed year in and year out, whenever two 
or three gardeners assemble. It is held by some that a horti¬ 
culturist is one who is connected in any manner or degree, 
directly or indirectly, with the cultivation or sale of fruit, 
flowers, or vegetables. In that sense “horticulturist” is a 
very wide term indeed, and it is difficult to see how or why a 
florist, who does nothing but prepare, as it were, the product 
of the garden for sale, or the market salesman who barters his 
thousand cabbages or his ton of potatoes, while nine-tenths 
of the populace are slumbering, is justified in calling himself a 
horticulturist. The friendly antagonism that has existed 
between the private and the nursery gardener is as old and 
ridiculous as the two-headed Janus. Recently I was rubbing 
.shoulders with an element of both, when the peace was broken 
by a statement from the nurseryman to the effect that to be 
a skilled hand it was more essential for the trade employee to 
have botanical science included in his training than in the case 
of the private gardener. The latter retorted with a long list 
of “essentials” common to a private gardener’s lot that never 
came within the cycle of a year’s work in the nursery. 
But,however varied the terms may be that are employed to 
distinguish the various departments connected with horticul¬ 
ture, there will always exist that spirit of good fellowship and 
freemasonry which for more years than any in the profession 
can remember has dwelt in the hearts of true horticulturists, 
be they gardeners, florists, nurser3mien, or all three .—Journal 
of Horticulture. 
