UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 
 'Jashington,  D.  C. 
 
 B.  E.  P*  Q.— 377  July  8,  1935. 
 
 PLANT-QUARANTINE  IMPORT  RESTRICTIONS 
 OF  THE 
 UNION  OF  SOVIET  SOCIALIST  REPUBLICS 
 
 Pending  the  publication  of  a  complete  summary  of  the  plant - 
 quarantine   import  restrictions  of  the  U.S.S.R.,   it   is  deemed  desir- 
 able to  draw  attention  to  a  recent  decision  of  the  people's  Com- 
 missariat for  Agriculture,   transmitted  by  the  People's  Commissariat 
 for  Foreign  Affairs  to   the  American  Embassy  at  Moscow  in  a  note 
 dated  April  22,   1935. 
 
 In  this  note,   the  Embassy  was  informed  that  the  importation  of 
 all  vegetable-plant  roots   (rooted  vegetables),   potatolike  plants, 
 rhizomes,   and  other  subterranean  vegetables,    such  as  potatoes,    sweet- 
 potatoes,   topinambour    (Jerusalem  artichokes,  Helianthus  tubero3us  L#), 
 beets,    etc.,    is  strictly  prohibited. 
 
 Foreign  missions  in  Moscow  are  permitted  to   import  fresh  "table 
 vegetables"   (cabbage,    cauliflower,    cucumber,   tomato,   asparagus,   lettuce, 
 spinach,   celery,    etc.)    already  cut  and  without  roots  and  earth.     The 
 above-mentioned  "table  vegetables"  are  subject  to  quarantine  inspection, 
 as  well  as  to   customs  examination,   even  though  carried  as  personal 
 baggage. 
 
 LEE  A.   STRONG, 
 Chief,   Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 
UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA 
 
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