LIBRARY STATE PLANT BOARD UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGR I CULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE Washington 25, D. C. Apiil 7. 19^9 P.S.P.Q. 57S-13 SUMMARY OF STATS NURSERY-STOCK SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS AND PLANT QUARANTINES AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS IDAHO The information contained in this summary was compiled from material received from the plant quarantine official of Idaho and has been approved by him. It is issued for the convenience of plant quarantine inspectors, shippers, transportation agents, truckers, and others concerned in the interstate movement of plants, plant products, and other materials sub- ject to State regulation on account of plant pests. The summary for Idaho gives the general requirements for shipping nursery stock into that State5 as well as digests of the State plant quarantines and regulations affecting interstate shipments. An appendix furnishes information on post-office requirements for mailing plants as well as terminal-inspection procedure. This summary does not include digests of nursery-stock or plant-quarantine requirements relating to the movement of plants entirely within the State. The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used independently of, or as a substitute for, the original texts of the regulations and quarantines and it is not to be interpreted as legally authoritative. For detailed information address the Director, Bureau of Plant Industry, State Department of Agriculture, Boise, Idaho. In addition to State requirements, shippers will need to take into consideration applicable plant quarantines of the United States Department of Agriculture. In most instances these quarantines regulate the inter- state movement of specified plants, plant products, and other articles from designated regulated areas. However, some of these quarantines re- gulate the interstate movement of certain articles into designated pro- tected areas. Copies of such quarantines may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington 25, D. C. tA/irt/iy kf Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Q,ua ran tine Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/fstnu49unit -2- Sumnary of_ General Nursery-Stock Shipping Requirements (Ch.l31, Laws' la_35, as amended "by ch. 236, Laws 1939; ch. 15, sec. 22-1510, ri.abo Code 1932) Definition of Nursery Stock. — Herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, roses, vines, fruiting plants, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit, forest, and ornamental trees and shrubs, both de- ciduous and evergreen; and flowering bulbs, roots, and corms grown for sale or propagation or collected in the wild, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds. Definition of Florist's Stock. — Cut flowers, foliage, ferns, potted plants, cutting or bedding plants; flowering bulbs and rooted herbaceous plants used for ornamental or decorative purposes; and corms, however grown, or cuttings thereof. G-eneral Shipping Requirements. — Any person who desires to sell nursery or florist's stock in Idaho or to transport such stock into the State must obtain a license from the- Idaho Department of Agriculture. The applicant must file a statement of his previous year's gros~ sales. If his business in Idaho grosses over ,^200 per year he must pay a license fee of $15 for his principal place of business and obtain a separate license, for the same fee, for each sales branch of his business, ex- clusive of growing grounds or greenhouses. Applicants dealing in fruit stock or fruit seeds must pay the license fee and also file a bond of $1,000. Applicants with an annual business grossing ^200 or loss must pay a fee of $5 per year. The fee for each agent's license is $1 per year. No license is required in the case of persons not regularly engaged in the nursery or florist business, provided his total anount of gross annual sales does not exceed $50- All licenses expire on June 30 following date of issue. It' is unlawful for any nurseryman or florist to sell or furnish any nursery or florist's stock that is misrepresented as to true name, age, and variety. Any shipment of nursery stock into Idaho is subject to inspection, whether or not accompanied by an inspection certificate of the State of origin. In case of shipment of nursery stock into the State by any person not licensed to do business in Idaho the consignee must have such nursery stock inspected and must pay an inspection fee of 10 percent of the invoice value of such shipment. It is the duty of transportation companies to notify the inspector of any district to which nursery stock is shipped from outside Idaho and not to release such shipments of nursery stock until they are in- spected. Plant Material s Subject to Ternina 1 In sue c_ti 0 n The State of Idaho has arranged, under the plan explained in the appendix, for terminal inspection of the following materials: All florists' I r] alio nn r s e ry - s "c o ck shipping requirements -3- 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, except vegetable and flower seeds, and succulent giants such as tomato, pepper, and cab- bage, provided that this list shall not apply to plants and plant products shipped either under the certificate of the Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine or of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Terminal Inspection Points in Idaho Blackfoot Jerome ■ ' *Pocateilo *Poise *Lewisto'n Rathdrum Ponners Jerry Moscow Rupert Eur ley *Kampa ■ Saint Anthony Caldwell New Plymouth Sandpoint *Coeur d'Alene Parma Twin Palls *Emmett *Payette Weiser * Idaho Falls * Places to which parcels shall be sent when addressed at the instance of the mailer in care of a plant inspector for onward transmission to the ultimate addressees. iaho plant quarant Lnos -'!- Summary _o f Plant ^Juarar. b i ries Cherry Fruit Flies (Quarantine Order No. 5> revised effective May 1, 19^5) Fresh cherries and containers thereof originating in counties in- fested with cherry fruit flies in Oregon and Washington may not bu trans- ported into Idaho except into the counties of Benewah, Kootenai, La tali, anl Nez Perce. Cherry fruits and used boxes entering these four counties from the infested counties are subject to inspection. Used cherry box s from such infested counties must he sterilized and so certified before moving into any part of Idaho except these four counties, Fresh cherries from the noninfested counties of Oregon and Washington will he admitted into Idaho only when accompanied by official certifi- cation at point of origin of having been grown in, packed in, and shipped from a county free from cherry fruit flies. Noninfested areas Idaho: Entire State except the counties of Benewah, Kootenai, Let ah, Fez Ferce Oregon: Counties of Baker; Coos, Curry, Douglas, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Lake, Malheur, Umatilla, Wallowa, Wa sco Washington: Counties of Adams, ronton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, Yakima Idaho plant quarantines -5- Cnestnut Blight (Quarantine Crdqr 'Jo. 15 (N.S.) revised effective Apr. 29, 1939) All species and varieties of chestnut and chinquapin trees and parts thereof, including the nuts, are prohibited from moving into Idaho from all States and Districts east of and including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, and from San Joaquin County, California. No restrictions are placed on foreign-grown chestnut and chinquapin nuts reshipped into or arriving in Idaho in unopened, original containers. Crown cr Cane Gall (Quarantine Order No. 14-A, revised effective Dec. 28 , lcjhk) All berry plants moving into Idaho from other States must be accom- panied by a certificate of the State of origin showing that the shipment has been inspected and found free from crown or cane gall. Downy Mildew o f H oa s (Quarantine Order No. 19, effective Aug. 10, 1933) No variety of hop plants or hop roots will be admitted into I^laho from Oregon or from the counties in "Washington west of the Cascade Mountains. Idaho plant quarantines -6- European Corn r>orer (Quarantine Order No. 2 (U.S.), revised Apr. 1, 19^5) Stalks, ears, cobs, or other parts of corn, "broom corn, sorghums, and Sudan grass (except clean seed and shelled grain) , as such, as packing, or as seed-contamination refuse, will not be admitted into Idaho from the regulated areas unless each shipment or lot is accompanied "by a certificate signed by (1) an inspector of the Federal Bureau, of Entomology and Plant Quarantine certifying that such shipment has "been treated under his supervision in such manner as to eliminate the borer, or (2) an offi- cial of the State of origin certifying that the shipment has "been treated under his supervision by a method approved by the Idaho Department of Agriculture, and giving details, date, and place of treatment. Cut flowers and entire plants of aster, chrysanthemum, dahlia, and gladiolus (except corms, roots, bulbs, or tubers without stems), lima beans and green shell beans (cranberry or horticultural) in the pod, beets with tops, and rhubarb (cut or plants) grown in or shipped from the regulated areas will not be admitted into Idaho unless each shipment or lot is accompa.nied by a certificate signed by a State or Federal in- spector certifying that the material in such shipment has been inspected and found free from the borer; except that cut flowers and entire plants or chrysanthemum, a,nd rhubarb (cut or plants), if propagated and grown in a greenhouse located within the regula.ted areas, will be admitted into Idaho when so certified by an official of the State of origin. No restrictions are placed upon the movement of the restricted products when they have been processed or manufactured. Regulated areas Connecticut Delaware Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Hew Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Tennessee: Counties of Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner Vermont Virginia ■Vest Virginia Wi scons in Idaho plant quara.nti nes -7- Locust Bore r (Quarantine Order No. IS (F.S.) , effective Mar. 1, 1932, as amended Sept. 1, 19U1) Black locust plants, untreated black locust products, and any ether materials capable of transporting the locust borer nay not be transported into or through Idaho unless accompanied by certification of the State of origin that such stock has been fumigated in an approved fumigation chamber using the dosage schedule specified in the quarantine. The cer- tificate must also state the date and details of treatment, point of shipment, and names and addresses of consignor anc1 consignee. A copy of such certificate must be mailed at time of shipment to the Director, Bureau of Plant Industry, Boise. In case of delivery in Idaho of locust plants or untreated locust products from the infested district (all States east of the eastern bor- ders of Arizona., Utah, Idaho, and Montana., and the entire State of Washington) , such shipments will immediately be sent out of Idaho or destroyed, all expenses incurred to be paid by the consignee or owner. Idaho plant quarantines -g- Mexican Bean 3eetle (Quarantine Order No. 1 (jr. S.) effective Apr. 1, 1927) Dried seed beans or dried field beans, when packed otherwise than in small paper seed packets, may not be transported into Id^ho from the infested territory unless accompanied by certification of the State of origin that s\ich beans were fumigated and placed in new sacks immediately prior to shipment. Ha© certificate must also state where the beans weve grown, points of shipment and delivery, and names and addresses of con- signor and consignee. A copy of such certificate must be mailed i - advance of shipment to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Boise. Inf .- sted territory Alabama MissJ ssippi Texas Arizona Now Mexico Utah: Washingtor Com t.. Colorado North Carolina Virginia Secrgia Ohio West -Virginia Indiana Pennsylvania Wyoming Kentucky . South Carolina Maryland Tenne s s .:■ c Idaho plant quarantines Peach Mosaic (Quarantine Order No. 21 (H S.) revised effective Apr. 1, 19^5) Prohibited products. — All almond, apricot, nectarine, peach, plum, and prune trees or parts thereof for or capable of propagation, except frait pits. C_o ndi t ions g o v e r n i ng sh ipm en t . — Any of the prohibited product? moving into Idaho from the infected aroa.will be refused admittance into the State, except that such restrictions do nco apply to experiments of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Idaho or to experiments of the Department of Fa,thology, University of Idaho. Infected area Arizona: Counties of Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Pima, Santa Criiz? Yavapa.i California: Counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego Colorado: Counties of Mesa and Montezuma New Mexico: Counties of Sernalillo, Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, Santa. Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Valencia Oklahoma: Counties of Alfalfa, Bryan, Johnston, Woods Texas: Counties of Brown , Callahan, Cherokee, Comanche, Dallas, Eastland, El Paso, Fannin, Fisher, Floyd, Gregg, Hale, Hudspeth, Johnson, Jones, Mills, Pair, pinto, Parser, Funnel-, Rusk, San Saba, Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Upchur, Wilbarger, Wood, Young Utah: Counties of Grand and Washington I daho plant quarantines -10- Peach Yellows, Peach Rosette, and Little P;ach (Quarantine Order No. 3 (N.S.) revised effective Apr. 1, l°/^5) Restricted articles. — Trees, cuttings, grafts, scions, or buds of all sioecj es and varieties of almond, apricot, nectarine, peach, and plur.i, including the flowering forms, and any trees "budded or grafted on peach stock or pe^ch roots. Conditions governing shipment. — The restricted articles nay not enter Idaho from the infected area unless certified as described below. Conditions of certification. — When it has been determined by adequate annual Federal or State surveys, satisfactory to the Idaho Commissioner of Agriculture, that counties within an infected State are disease- free, restricted articles originating in such counties will be admitted into Idaho, if each shipment is accompanied by certification of the State of origin that the restricted articles were produced in such disease-free counties from disease-free bud sources and root stocks, and in disease- free environs. The certificate must also state the names and addresses of shipper and consignee, the number and kind of restricted articles in the shipment, and the area, where grown. A copy of such certificate must be forwarded at time of shipment to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Boise. These restrictions do not apply to experiments of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Idaho or to experiments of the Department of Pathology, University of Idaho. Infected area Alabama. Arkansas Connecticut Delaware Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maryland District of Columbia Massachusetts Ohio Florida Michigan Oklahoma Georgia Mis si ssippi New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia. Idaho plant quarantines -13, Phony Peach Pi so? so (Quarantine Ord.e'r No. 22 (N.S.) revised effective Apr. 29, 1939) Peach or nectarine roots, or, peach or nectarine trees with roots, or any kind of trees grafted on peach or nectarine roots may "be trans- ported from the regulated areas into, within, or from Idaho only when accompanied by a nursery certificate or permit of the State cf origin. Certificates or permits shall be issued only on condition that the nur- sery and its environs within a mile were inspected and all phony- diseased trees removed prior to June 7j0 preceding shipment, provided that the presence of the disease in any block of the nursery or adjacent thereto shall disqualify for certification all stock in the block or blocks other than rootstock from seed planted the previous winter. Regulated areas Alabama: Entire State Arkansas: Florida: Georgia: Illinois: Indiana: Kentucky : Louisiana: Mi ssissippi : Hi ssouri : Entire State Entire State Entire State Counties of Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Marion, Massac., Pulaski, Union, Washington, Williamson County of Gibson Counties of Graves, McCracken, Webster Entire State Entire State Counties of Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Franklin, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Scott, Stoddard North Carolina: Counties of Anson, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Robeson, Rutherford, Stanly, Wake Pennsylvania: County of Berks South Carolina: Entire State Tennessee: Entire State Texas: Entire State Idaho plr.nt quarantines -12- Potato Tuber Moth (Quarantine. Order No. 11 (U.S.) revised effective May 22, 19^3) Sach shipment of potatoes moving from the infested area into Idaho must be accompanied by ( l) State-of-origin certification at point of origin that the fields in which the potatoes v/ere grown were inspected and found apparently free from potato tuber moth, and the potatoes were inspected when ready for shipment and found free of the pest, or (2) cer- tification of the State of origin, or of any State outside Idaho, that the potatoes were fumigated according to prescribed methods and dosages. Such certificate must also state the shipping point, dates of inspection and fumigation, number of containers in shipment, car name and number, and names and addresses of shipper a.nd consignee. A copy of the certi- ficate must be sent to the lureau of Plant Industry, Eoise. Each container of potatoes, when reshipped in broken lots of less than the original carload lots, must be plainly labeled with a tag showing the State or Territory of origin, the shipping point, and the serial number of the certificate issued on the entire lot. Infested area Alabama Louisiana South Carolina California. Maryland Tennessee Florida Mississippi ■ Texas Georgia Nebraska Virginia Hawaii North Carolina Idaho plant quarantines -13- Satin Moth (Quarantine Order No. 2h (N.S.) effective Apr. 2Q, 1939) Poplar or willow trees or parts thereof capable of propagation may not be transported from the infested territory into Idaho unless such shipment is accompanied by certification of the State of origin that all articles in the shipment were grown and shipped from a county free from satin moth. If the articles in such shipment were grown in a county free of the pest but were stored in the infested territory, the certificate must state that all such articles were stored in a storage free from poplar or willow trees or parts thereof from infested terri- tory. Infested. territory Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont Maine Oregon Washington Massachusetts Rhode Island Seed Potatoes (Quarantine Order No. 29 effective Jan. 31, 19UU) Seed potatoes may not be shipped into Idaho, unless they are "Certified Seed Potatoes," according to the requirements for certi- fication in the State of origin. No certified seed potatoes infected with bacterial ring rot may be shipped into the State. The above summary was checlced and approved on August lfi, 19^-6. by Wilson Kellogg, Director, Bureau of Pirnt Industry, Idaho Department of Agriculture, with respect to the quarantines and regulations then in effect. APPENDIX Requ irements for Mailing; Plants and Plant Products "Tnder the postal laws and regulations, nursery stock, including pll field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, bu.is, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, including strawberry plants (except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots), nay be admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a State inspection certificate 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. Parcels containing such nursery stock must be plainly marked to show the nature of the contents end the name and address of the sender. (Postal Laws and Regulations 19^0> sec 5950 Inspection and certification must be done by a plant quarantine official of the State of origin. An individual mailing of such plants or plant products, if from uninspected premises, will also be accepted upon examination and certification by a State plant quarantine official. The address of the Idaho plant quarantine official is given in the preceding summary. Terminal Inspection of Mail Shipments of Plants and Plant Products (Act Mar. '4, 1915. a-s amended June h, 193o; Postal Laws and Regulations 19^0, sec. 59&) Establishment of Terminal Inspection. — Any State desiring to operate under the provisions of the terminal inspection law so as to regulate the movement of mail shipments of plants and plant products into (or within) the State may, after having provided therefor at State exepense and having designated one or more places where inspection will be main- tained, arrange to have such mail shipments turned over to State plant quarantine inspectors for examination at designated inspection points. Application will be made to the Secretary of Agriculture by submitting a list of plants and plant products and the plent pests transmitted thereby, which are to be examined. The list, when approved in whole or in part, will be transmitted to the Postmaster General whereupon postmasters will be informed and instructed. Anyone mailing a parcel containing any plants or plant products addressed to any place within a State maintaining terminal inspection thereof is required, under the law, to have the parcel plainly marked on the outside to show the nature of the contents. Materials shipped under Federal quarantine certificates issued by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine may be exempted from terminal inspection at the option of the receiving State. Under the provisions of the 1936 amendment to the law, any State may arrange through Federal channels, after approval by the Secretary of Agriculture as indicated above, to regulate or prohibit the movement UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 1 1 1 ! IM III i I ~1D~ 3 1262 09314 8061 into (or within) the State of mail shipments of designated plants and plant products the movement of which would Constitute a violation of State plant quarantine laws or regulations. •Terminal Inspection Procedure. — Upon arrival in any State maintaining terminal inspection, plants or plant products named on the approved list will be forwarded "by the postmaster at destination to the nearest in- spection point. If the plants or plant products are found, upon inspec- tion, to he free from injurious pests and not in violation of any plant quarantine or regulation of the State of destination or the United States Department of Agriculture, or if disinfested when they are found infested, such plants or plant oroducts will then "be forwarded by the postmastf-r at the point of inspection to the addressee upon payment of postage. If plants or pla.nt products, upon inspection, are found to be in- fested with injurious pests and cannot be satisfactorily disinfested, or are in violation of any plant quarantine or regulation of the State of destination or the United States Department of Agriculture, the post- master upon notification by the State inspector will inform the sender that the parcel will be returned to him upon his request and at his expense. In default of such request the parcel will be turned over to the State authorities for destruction. Terminal inspection of plants and pla.nt products' is now maintained by Arizona, Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Utah, and Washington. Plants and plant products subject to terminal inspection and places where terminal-inspection service is maintained are listed at the end of the summary of the general nursery- Ftock shipping require- ments for each of the above-mentioned States, District, and Territories. Procedure for Paying Forwarding Postage. — Methods of paying forwarding postage are provided to expedite the handling of parcels subject to ter- minal inspection, as follows: (1) The addressee may have the parcels addressed to himself in care of the State inspector at a designated ter- minal-inspection point in the State' of destination and provide the in- spector with postage for forwarding the inspected plants; or (2) the addressee may arrange with the sender to place on the parcels a pledge reading, "Porwarding postage guaranteed," whereupon the additional postage for forwarding will be collected from the addressee.