(a) Nursery shipments-(1) Nursery stock, etc. Nursery stock, including 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 other plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots, may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied with a certificate from a State or Government inspector to the effect that the nursery or premises from which such stock is shipped has been inspected within a year and found free from injurious insects and plant diseases, and the parcel containing such stock is plainly marked to show the nature of the contents and the name and address of the sender.

(2) Preparation and packaging. The wettable packing material and the roots or butts of the plants must be wrapped or boxed in a waterproof material heavy enough to withstand safe transmission in the mails without leakage or loss of packing material. The term "waterproof material" means a tar-centered paper or kraft paper waxed on one side or a kraft paper with a waxed or tarred paper liner or plastic wrap. If a box is used, it must have a similar lining to prevent leakage or loss of contents and to insure retaining a moisture content for the roots of plants without weakening the box. The tops of all bundles must be wrapped with a covering of paper, straw or similar material to protect the plant from injury and drying out and if the plant has thorns or other pointed projections, the wrapper shall be punctureproof to avoid injury to postal employees handling such bundles.

(b) Plant quarantines applying to the continental United States. When any State or area is quarantined by order of the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority of the Plant Quarantine Act, or by an authorized State plant pest official cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture, on account of a plant disease or insect infestation, the mailing of

plants, plant products, or other articles covered by such quarantine or regulatory order from such State or area into or through any State or area is subject to the restrictions imposed by such order. A summary of these quarantines follows:

(1) Black Stem Rust. Federal Quarantine No. 38: (i) Prohibits movement of barberry, mahonia, and mahoberberis plants and parts thereof capable of propagation other than designated rustresistant plants, which may be moved by nurseries and dealers listed by the Director of Plant Pest Control Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, as sources authorized to ship such plants (shippers may be required to present evidence or authorization to ship before shipments of these plants are accepted for mailing). Parts of mahonia plants without roots intended for decorative purposes are exempted from these requirements; (ii) prohibits movement of seeds and fruits of any barberry, mahonia, and mahoberberis from the other States and the District of Columbia into the eradication States of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, except under special permit. Seeds and fruits of rust-resistant plants may be moved between the eradication States only when accompanied by permits issued specifically for such movement. by administrative instructions, the movement of seeds and fruits from the eradication States to points outside thereof or between points entirely outside the eradication States.

(2) Gypsy moth and brown-tail moth. Federal Quarantine No. 45: Prohibits, except when accompanied by a Federal certificate or permit or when exempted by administrative instructions, the movement to any point outside the regulated areas, or from the generally infested area to points in the suppressive area of: (i) Timber and timber products; (ii) plants having persistent woody stems, and parts thereof, including Christmas trees; (iii) stone and quarry products; and (iv) any other commodities or articles when found on inspection to be infested with gypsy or brown-tail moths. The regulated areas include the entire States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, and parts of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Ver

mont. The suppressive area includes parts of the regulated area in New York. (3) Japanese beetle. Federal Quarantine No. 48: Prohibits, except when accompanied by Federal certificates or permits or when exempted from certification by administrative instructions, the movement from the regulated areas of: (i) Soil, humus, compost, and decomposed manure; (ii) nursery stock; and (iii) fresh fruits and vegetables from seasonally designated areas during part of the year, when shipped by truck or in carload lots. The regulated areas include the District of Columbia, the entire States of Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, and parts of the States of Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and South Carolina.

(4) Pink bollworm. Federal Quarantine No. 52: Prohibits, except when accompanied by a Federal certificate or permit or when exempted from certification by administrative instructions, the movements from the regulated areas of: (i) Gin trash and cotton waste from gins and mills; (ii) cotton and wild cotton plants and products thereof, including seed cotton, cottonseed, cotton lint, linters, and all other forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber, cottonseed hulls, cake, and meal, and all other parts of such plants; (iii) okra plants including seed and edible and dry pods; and (iv) when infested with pink bollworms or contaminated with regulated cotton products, bagging and other containers of cotton, and farm products, farm household goods, and farm equipment. The regulated areas include the entire States of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, and parts of the States of Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

(5) White-pine blister rust. Federal Quarantine No. 63: Prohibits (i) the movement of five-leaved pines into the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and that part of California comprising the counties of Contra Costa, Mariposa, Mono, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and all those south thereof unless originating in such areas, except when intended for reforestation purposes; (ii) the movement of European black currant plants (Ribes nigrum) into the District of Columbia and all States except Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,

Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; (iii) the movement of all currant and goosebeery plants into parts of the States of Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and West Virginia; and (iv) except when accompanied by a Federal control-area permit, the movement of all currant and gooseberry plants into the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and parts of the States of Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

(6) Mexican fruit fly. Federal Quarantine No. 64: Prohibits, except as provided in the regulations and administrative instructions supplemental thereto, the movement from the regulated areas in Texas of citrus and other specified fruits.

(7) White-fringe beetle. Federal Quarantine No. 72: Prohibits, except when accompanied by a Federal certificate or permit or when specifically exempted from certification requirements by administrative instruction, the movement from the regulated areas in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia of (i) soil independent of or in connection with nursery stock, plants, or other things; (ii) nursery stock and other stipulated plants or plant products; and (iii) other specified articles.

(8) Khapra beetle. Federal Quarantine No. 76: Prohibits movement from the regulated area, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of grains and grain products, dried seeds and seed products, bags, bagging, dried milk, dried blood, fish meal, and meat scraps. The regulated areas are limited to properties in parts of Arizona, California, and New Mexico which are designated as regulated areas in administrative instructions.

(9) European chafer. Federal Quarantine No. 77: Prohibits movement from the regulated area unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits of nursery stock, sand, soil, gravel, humus, compost, and decomposed manure. The regulated areas include parts of Connecticut, New York, and West Virginia.

(10) Soybean cyst nematode. Federal Quarantine No. 79: Prohibits movement, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of soil, nursery

stock and other plants with roots attached, true bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, root crops, soybeans, small grains, ear corn, hay, straw, fodder, and plant litter of any kind, seed cotton, used farm tools and implements, burlap bags, cotton picking sacks, and other farm products. The regulated areas include parts of the States of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

(11) Witch weed. Federal Quarantine No. 80: Prohibits movement from the regulated area, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of soil, nursery stock, and other plants with roots attached, bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, root crops, seed cotton, tobacco, peanuts in shells, ear corn, soybeans, and small grains. The regulated areas include parts of North Carolina and South Carolina.

(12) Imported fire ant. Federal Quarantine No. 81: Prohibits movement, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of soil, plants with soil, grass sod, and forest products. The regulated areas include parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

(13) Peach mosaic. Standard State quarantines on account of the peach mosaic disease prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the States of origin, the movement of all peach, plum, prune, nectarine, apricot, and almond trees, and propagative parts except fruit pits, into, within or from Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

(14) Phony peach. Standard State quarantines on account of the Phony peach disease prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the States of origin, the movement of all almond, apricot, nectarine, peach, and plum nursery stock into, within or from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

(15) Sweet potato weevil. Live sweet potato weevils in any stage of development may be accepted for mailing only when accompanied by a permit issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. State sweetpotato weevil quarantines of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas

prohibit movement from regulated areas of sweetpotatoes (tubers) and sweetpotato and morningglory (Impomoea) plants and parts thereof, including vines, cuttings, draws, and roots, unless they are accompanied by sweetpotato weevil quarantine or inspection certificates issued by authorized inspectors of the States of origin. The regulated areas include parts of the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

(16) Cereal leaf beetle. Standard State quarantines on account of the cereal leaf beetle prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the State of origin, the movement of grain, uncleaned grass and forage crop seed, hay, straw, fodder, and plant litter of any kind, and sod. The regulated areas include parts of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

Detailed information regarding these quarantines may be obtained by writing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 20250.

(c) Plant quarantines applying to Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Federal plant quarantines prohibit the shipment by mail or otherwise from Hawaii and Puerto Rico of the following plants and plant products into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United States: Sugarcane or cuttings or parts thereof, or sugarcane leaves (Quarantine No. 16, revised), except that bagasse may be shipped under permit when accompanied by certificates issued by Federal plant quarantine inspectors for such shipment, or by special green and yellow mailing tags furnished by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine Division, and bearing the address of one of the following stations of that Bureau: Hoboken, N.J., San Francisco, Calif., Laredo, Tex., and Seattle, Wash.; also prohibited are sweetpotatoes, except under permit or certificate from an inspector of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Quarantine No. 30, revised); cotton, seed cotton, cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, cake and meal, cotton waste, and bale covers, except under certificate or permit issued by an inspector of the Plant Quarantine Division in the Territory, District, or Insular Possession of origin (Quarantine No. 47); sand (other than clean ocean sand), soil, or earth around the roots of plants (Quarantine No. 60). Fruits and vegetables in the natural or raw state

from Puerto Rico and fruits and vegetables in the natural or raw state, peel of fruits of all citrus and citrus relatives, certain cut flowers, rice straw, and mango seeds from Hawaii are prohibited from moving into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United States; except that certificates may be issued by Federal plant quarantine inspectors for the shipment from Hawaii of specified fruits and vegetables on special determination in each case (Quarantine No. 13) and, for shipment from Puerto Rico, of grapefruit, oranges, and other citrus fruits, pineapples, bananas, plantains, avocados, dasheens, sweet corn on cob, and certain other articles, on special determination in each case (Quarantine No. 58). The regulations do not however apply to the shipment from Puerto Rico of coconuts either in, or free from, the husk when shipped through the mail without wrapping or packing as individual parcels. Federal permits are required from Hawaii and Puerto Rico to ship cotton, cottonmill waste and cottonseed cake, meal, and other cottonseed products other than oil, except that samples of raw or unmanufactured ginned cotton, including cottonmill waste, and samples of cottonseed cake and meal may be shipped by parcel post when the parcels are securely wrapped to prevent leakage and are conspicuously addressed to the Plant Quarantine Division at Hoboken, N.J., San Francisco, Calif., or Seattle, Wash. The name and address of the ultimate addressee must be indicated in the lower left corner. Upon arrival of such parcels at the Plant Quarantine Division they will be examined and fumigated and forwarded to the ultimate addressee under the original postage (Quarantine No. 47).

(d) Plant materials to, from, and between, certain territories and possessions (1) From Canal Zone and Samoa. Plant material from Tutuila, Manua, and the Canal Zone, moving to the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, is subject to the plant quarantines that affect the importation of plant material from foreign countries.

(2) Islands in the Trust Territory of the Pacific. Plants and plant materials, including fruits and vegetables, and living cultures of bacteria, fungi, or viruses are subject to plant quarantines established by the government of the Trust Territory. Plants and plant materials originating in the Trust Territory, when

moving within the territory, may require a plant and animal quarantine permit issued by a local District Agriculturist. Items originating outside the Trust Territory should be accompanied with a dispatch permit issued by the Staff Entomologist or Director of Agriculture of the Trust Territory.

CROSS REFERENCE: For quarantine regulations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, see 7 CFR Chapter III.

(e) Terminal inspection for plants and plant products-(1) States and territories requiring inspection. Packages containing plants and plant products addressed to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Puerto Rico, Utah, Washington, and islands in the Trust Territory of the Pacific must be examined by State inspectors at the places listed in subparagraph (6) of this paragraph. The packages must be plainly marked on the outside to show the exact nature of their contents.

(2) Addressee must pay additional postage. The addressee must pay postage to send the package to the inspection place and must arrange with the State plant inspector to pay postage to return the package to the office of address after inspection.

(3) Packages addressed in care of State plant inspector. Packages may be addressed in care of a State plant inspector at a place other than where the addressee lives. The addressee must arrange for the inspector to pay postage to forward the package to the addressee after inspection.

(4) Disposition of infected shipments. When the inspector finds that plants or plant products are infested or infected with injurious insects or diseases and are incapable of satisfactory treatment, or they are found to have been moved in violation of a plant quarantine law or regulation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or of the State or territory of destination pertaining to such injurious pests, parcels will be returned to the sender and payment of postage for return collected on delivery. If the sender has marked the parcel to be abandoned, if undelivered, the package will be turned over to State authorities for destruction.

(5) Information about quarantines. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Washington, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands have arranged for enforcement

of some State quarantines. When regulated plants or plant products are found to have been mailed in violation of quarantines, delivery may be withheld. Summaries of those quarantines may be obtained from the Plant Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250.

(6) List of products and places of inspection—(i) Alabama-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All sweetpotato roots, tubers, plants, and vines, and parts thereof, which are not accompanied by a valid certificate tag issued by the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries; and other vines, trees, and shrubs, and cuttings and grafts thereof, and strawberry plants, which are not accompanied by a valid nursery inspection certificate of the State of origin. Terminal inspection place-Birmingham.

(ii) Arizona-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except vegetable and flower seeds.

Terminal inspection places

accompanied with required certificate. Postage will be collected for return.

(iv) California.-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, and vegetable and flower seeds.

Terminal inspection places

Alameda.
Alturas.
Anaheim.
Anderson.
Antioch.
Arbuckle.
Arlington.
Aromas.
Arvin.

Atascadero.
Auburn.
Bakersfield.

Banning.
Bard.
Barstow.
Beaumont.
Belmont.
Berkeley.
Bieber.
Biggs.

Bloomington.

Blythe.

Brawley.

Broderick.

Bryn Mawr. Burlingame. Calexico. Calipatria.

Calistoga.

Camarillo.

Carpinteria.

Chico.

Chino.

Chowchilla. Chula Vista.

Clovis.

Coachella.

Colfax.

Colma.

Colton.

Colusa.

plant

Concord.

products subject to inspection. Sweetpotatoes, sweetpotato plants, vines, draws, and slips.

NOTE: Under a State quarantine on account of the sweetpotato weevil, the articles named are prohibited entry into Arkansas unless accompanied by an inspection certificate issued by the State of origin showing the plants and plant products to be free of infestation. Parcels acompanied by a certificate will be delivered to the addresses without inspection. Parcels not accompanied with a certificate will be returned to the office of mailing endorsed: Unmailable-Not

Corcoran.

Corning.

Corona.
Cucamonga.
Cutler.
Daly City.
Davis.
Delano.
Del Rosa.
Diamond Springs.
Dinuba.
Dorris.
Dos Palos.
Ducor.
Earlimart.

East Highlands. El Cajon.

El Centro.

El Cerrito.

El Dorado.
Elsinore.
Escalon.
Escondido.
Etiwanda.

Etna.
Eureka.
Exeter.
Fairfax.

Fairfield.

Farmersville.

Fillmore.
Fontana.

Fort Bragg.
Fort Jones.
Fowler.
Fresno.

Fullerton.

Gazelle.

Gilroy.

Goshen.

Gridley.

Gustine.

Half Moon Bay.
Hanford.
Hayward.
Healdsburg.
Hemet.
Highland.
Hollister.
Hollywood.
Holtville.
Hornbrook.

Hueneme.
Hughson.
Imperial.
Indio.
Irvington.
Ivanhoe.

Jackson.

Jamestown.
Kelseyville.
King City.
Kingsburg.
Lafayette.

Lakeport.

LeGrand.

Lemon Cove.

Lemoore.

Lincoln.

Lindsay.

Livermore.

Livingston.