STATE PLANT BOARD UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRI CULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADM INI STRATI 01! BUREAU 0? ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE Washington 25, D. C. 3.E.P.Q. 572-U7 September 26, ] SUMiiARY OF STATE NORSERY-STOCK shipping requirements and plant QUARANTINES AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS VERMONT The information contained in this summary was compiled from material received from tne plant quarantine official of Vermont, and has been op- proved "by him. It is issued for the convenience of plant quarantine in- spectors, shippers, transportation agents, truckers, and others concerned in the interstate movement of plants, plant iproducts, and other materials subject to State regulation on account of plant pests6 The summary for Vermont gives the general requirements for shipping nursery stock into that State An appendix furnishes information on post- office requirements for mailing plants, as well as terminal— inspection pro- cedure. This sum/nary does not include digests of nursery-stock and plant quarantine requirements relating to the movement of plants entirely within the State. The information contained in this circular was prepared by Juliet H. Carrington, Division of Plant Quarantines; and is "relieved tc 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 it is not to be interpreted as legally authoritative. For detailed information address the Director, Division of Plant Pest Control, State Department of Agriculture, Montpelier, Vermont, or the Vermont Nursery Inspector, 23C Loomis Street, Burlington, Vermont. 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 int^ re- state movement of specified plants, plant products, and other articles from designated regulated areas. However, some of these quarantines regu- late the interstate movement of certain articles into designated protected areas. Copies of such quarantines may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington 2^, D. C, Jfo-eff i £l^Jr;a_u of/Entomology "and ,Pptnt Quarantine ■7 . Vermont nursery-stock shipping requirements - 2 - Suiomary of General Nursery Stock Shipping Requirements (Acts 15 (190S), 16 (1910), 22 ( 1912 ) , as amended by Acts (I923), no, 8, sec. 5) Definition of Uursery Stock. — All fruit and ornamental trees, including forest trees, and shrubs, including fruit bushes, General Shipping Requirements, — Each shipment or container of nursery stock moving into Vermont should be accompanied by an inspection certificate of the State of origin and carry the names and addresses of consignor and con- signee. Transportation companies are prohibited from accepting uncertified nursery stock for shipment under penalty. Vermont maintains no State plant quarantines affecting interstate shipments. The foregoing summary was reviewed and approved on September 8, 1952. by Perry H, Merrill, State Forester. APPENDIX Requirements _for_ Mailing Plants and Plant Products Under the postal laws and regulations, 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, including strawberry plants, (except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous .plants, bulbs, and roots), may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied fr/ a State inspection certificate tc 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 a.id the name and address of the sender, (Postal Laws and Regulations 19H8, sec. 35>c27(b))c 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 certifi- cation by a State plant quarantine official. The address of the Vermont plant quarantine official is given in the preceding summary8 Terminal Inspe ction of Mail Shipments of Plants and Plant Products (Act Mar. h, 19l5> as amended Juno h, 1936; "Postal Laws and Regulations 19U3, sec. 35>e2c) Establishment 01 Terrain.-:! Inspection. — Any State desiring to operate under the provisions of the terminal inspection law so as to regulate the move- ment of mail shipments of plants and plant products into (or within) the State may, -after having provided therefor at State expense and having designated one or more places where inspection will be maintained, arrange to have such mail shipments turned over to State plant quarantine inspec- tors for examination at designated inspection points 6 Application will be made to the Secretary of Agriculture by submitting a list of plants and plant products and the plant pests transmitted thereby, which are to be examined. The list, when approved in whole or in part, will be trans- mitted to the Postmaster General whereupon postmasters will be informed and instructed. Anyone mailing a parcel containing any plants or plant products ad- dressed to any place within a State maintaining terminal inspection thereof is required, under the law, to have the parcel plainly marked on the out- side 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 into (or within) the Statu of mail shipments o$ 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 mainatining 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 be 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 dis infested when they are found infested, such plants or plant products will then be forwarded by the postmaster at the point of inspection to the addressee upon payment of postage. If plants or plant 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 tiie parcel will be returned to him upon .his request and at his ex- pense. In default of such request the parcel will be turned over to the Statu authorities for destruction. Terminal inspection of plants and plant 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 tiie summary of the general nursery-stock shipping requirements for each of the above-mentioned States, District, and Territories. Procedure for Paying Forwarding Postage. — Medthods of paying forwarding postage are provided to expedite the handling of parcels subject to ter- minal inspection as follows: (l) The addressee may have the parcels ad- dressed to himself in care of the State inspector at a designated terminal- inspection point in the State of destination and provide the inspector with postage for forwarding the inspected plants; or (2) the addressee may arrange with the sender to place on the parcels a pledge reading, "Forwarding postage guaranteed," whereupon the additional postage for forwarding will be collected from the addressee. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA