VI. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Sepr., 1898. 
thereof. In the event of such nursery being subject to disease, the officer shall forth- 
with give to the owner or occupier thereof written notice in the form contained in 
Schedule 4 hereto, to take the necessary measures for the eradication of such disease. 
15. The owner or occupier of every such registered nursery who raises for sale 
or distribution trees, plants, or vegetables, or portions thereof, not suitable for 
immediate culinary purposes, shall give to the party immediately concerned in an 
transaction, whether of gift, sale, or exchange for valuable consideration of any suc 
trees, plants, or vegetables, a written guarantee in the form contained in Schedule 5 
hereto, certifying his nursery is duly registered, and that the trees, plants, or 
vegetables have been disinfected by him, or his agents, by any one or more of the 
methods prescribed by Schedule 1 hereto, and that they are free from disease, and are 
in a vigorous and healthy condition. } : 
16. All market gardens devoted exclusively to the cultivation of culinary vege- 
tables, and all other gardens so far as relate to these kinds of plants, shall be excepted 
from the operation of the next preceding three clauses of these Regulations. 
17. No person shall sell or dispose of, or offer for sale, any tree, plant, or 
vegetable, or portion thereof, infested with or infected by any disease. 
Fruit fly. 
18. All fallen fruit, of whatever kind (and whether harbouring insects or not), 
shall be gathered before noon of each day by the ciate or owner, or his or her 
agent, of any place where fruit trees are being grown, and all pest-infected fruit shall 
be submitted to the process of boiling, or be buried beneath not less than one foot six 
inches of solid earth. 
SCHEDULE 1. 
DistnFEcTioN or Prants ar Prace or Entry anp at Nvursertes. 
A. They shall be disinfected by being dipped for a period of not less than two 
minutes in a solution of 1 lb. of whale oil or any similar soap (80 per cent.) to every 
lites of water. The said solution to be kept at a temperature of 115 to 120 degrees 
ahrenheit. 
B. Or in addition to being disinfected as prescribed in 4, they shall be further 
disinfected by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas as follows :—They shall be placed 
in an airtight box ; for each and every 100 cubic feet of space contained therein shall 
be used for 
Plants in pots or in leaf 
400 grains of fused cyanide of potassium (98 per cent.) with 14 oz. of fluid sulphuric 
acid, 3 oz. of water: 
Lruit trees and shrubs, 
530 grains of fused cyanide of potassium (98 per cent.) with 14 oz. of fluid sulphuric 
acid, 34 oz. of water. The sulphuric acid and water shall be placed in an earthenware 
vessel in the box, the cyanide of potassium shall be added and the box immediately 
closed tightly, and aatecsarinn so for not less than sixty minutes. 
SCHEDULE 2. 
Place of Entry : Date: 
This is to certify that the trees or plants imported into by 
hevenbeen inspected by me, and that they have been disinfected as set forth in 
chedule 1. 
Signed : 
Date: 
SCHEDULE 3. 
This is to certify that the nursery situated at , and of which 
is the registered owner or occupier thereof, has been inspected by me this day, and 
has been found to be free from disease. 
Signed : 
Date : 
