UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OE ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE Washington 25, D. C. May 18, I9U9 LIBRARY B. e.p. q. 573-2$ STATE PLANT BOARD SUMMARY OE STATE NURSERY- STOCK SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS AND PLANT QUARANTINES AND REGULATIONS AFEECTING INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS MISSOURI The information contained in this summary was compiled from material received from the plant quarantine official of Missouri and has "been ap- 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 products, and other materials subject to State regulation on account of plant pests. The summary for Missouri gives the general requirements for shipping nursery stock into that State, as well as digests of the State plant quar- antines and regulations affecting interstate shipments. An appendix fur- nishes 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 b3 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 State Entomologist, State Department of Agriculture, Jefferson City, Missouri. 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 regulate the movement of certain articles into designated protected areas. Cop:es of such quarantines may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington 25, D. C. Plant Quarantine Missouri Eur sery- stock shipping requirements -2- Missoimi Summary of General Nursery-Stock Shipping Requirements (Insect Pect and Plant Disease Law, Rev. Stat. Mo. 19 3" i ch. 102, art. 3; Regulations, effective Apr. 15, 19*+&) Definition of Nursery-Stock. — All trees, shrubs, vines, and parts capable of propagation, except seed, including plants collected from fields, forest, or native stands; all plants having a persistent woody stem; and perennials, such as iris, peonji, gladiolus, and strawberries. General Shipping Requirement st — Any nonresident nurseryman desiring to ship nursery stock into Missouri should apply for a Missouri nursery permit certificate. There is no charge for a nursery permit certificate. Annually, on or "before October 1, each nurseryman must file with the Missouri State Entomologist a list of his agents operating in Missouri, and must supplement this list as additional agents are employed. The State Entomologist will issue for each qualified nursery agent, free of charge, a nursery agent's certificate, which must be carried when the agent is doing business in Missouri, to be shown upon request. Any person in Missouri not engaged in the nursery business may arrange for a package certificate of inspection by sending the plants, prepaid, to the Department of Agriculture, Jefferson City. If the plants pass in- spection they will be forwarded to the consignee upon arrangement by the owner for payment of transportation expenses. Each carload, truckload, or container of nursery stock moved into Missouri must have attached an inspection certificate of the Stats of origin and a general statement of the contents, except tnat no certificate is needed for a shipment for identification or experimental purposes to the State Experiment Stations or to the State or Federal Departments of Agriculture. Common carriers or their agents receiving shipments of any products shipped in violation of any State or Federal quarantine or State regu- lation mist notify the State Department of Agriculture and hold such ship- ments pending instructions. Shipments from any foreign country and Territories of the United States of plants or plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state (except fruits, nuts, field, vegetable, or flo\ver seeds) must be held unopened pending instructions, whether or not certified. Missouri plant quar an tines -3- Summary^.Qf. .Plant Quarantines and Re ula^ions Phony Peach Disease (Quarantine No. 1, revised effective Mar. 20, 19u7) Peach or nectarine roots, or peach or nectarine trees with roots, or any kind of trees grafted on such roots may not "be shipped from the infected areas into, within, or from Missouri unless accompanied "by a nursery in- spection certificate of the State of origin. Certificates will be issued only on condition that the nursery and. its environs within a mile have been inspected and all phony-diseased trees removed prior to June 30 preceding shipment, provided that the presence of the disease ir any block of the nursery, or adjacent thereto, shall disqualify for certification all stock within the affected block other than rootstock from seed planted the pre- vious winter. Infected areas Alabama: Entire State Florida: Entire State Georgia: Entire State Arkansas; Counties of Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Columbia, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Drew, Hempstead, Howard, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Miller, Monroe, Nevada, Phillips, .Pike, Saint Francis, Sevier, Union, Woodruff Louisiana: Parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Do Soto, Jackson, Lincoln, Morehouse, ITatchitoches, Ouachita, Red River, Union, Webster Mississippi: Entire State except counties of Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Coahoma, De Soto, Grenada, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lauderdale, Lee, Leflore, Madison, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Washington, Winston, Yalobusha Missouri: County of Dunklin South Carolina: Counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Greenville, Laurens, Saluda, Spartanburg Tennessee: Counties of Chester, Davidson, Hamilton, Hardeman, Lauderdale, Marion, Shelby Texas: Counties of Be -car, Brazos, Camp, Cherokee, Harrison, Kerr, Lime "tone, hcLdnnan, Milam, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Smith, Upshur Missouri plant quarantines Oi- Seed Sweetpotatoes and Sfrgetpotato Plants (Eegulaiions, effective Apr. 15, I9U6) No individual or company may ship or transport into Missouri seed sweetpotatoes, sweetpotato plants, slips, vines, or cuttings, unless each container thereof "bears a sweetpotato permit certificate issued "by the Missouri State Entomologist. Such nonresident individual or company must file with the State Entomologist a "Grower's Statement" and a copy of an inspection certifi- cate of the State of origin certifying that the sweetpotato plants or plant parts have "been inspected and found free of dangerous dlseaRes and insect pests. On compliance of the applicant with such requirements, the State Entomologist will issue a sweetpotato permit certificate without charge. The above summary wa_s checked and approved on August U, 1$M3, "by I&oyd E. Adams, State Entomologist. -5- APPE17DIX Requirements for Mailing Plants and Plant Products Under the postal laws and regulations, nursery stock, including all field-grown florists' stoek, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants, and plant products, for propagation, including strawberry plants, (except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots), may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a State inspection certificate to the • effect that the nursery or premises from which such stock is shipped has been inspected within a year and found free from injurious insects and plant diseases. Parcels containing such nursery stock must be plainly marked to snow the nature of the contents and the name and address of the sander. (Postal Laws and Regulations 19*+0, sec. 595«) Inspection and certification >rust be done "oy a plant quarantine official of the State of origin. An. individual mailing of such plants or plant products, if from uninspected premises, will also be accepted upon examination and certifi- cation by a State plant quarantine official. The address of the Missouri plant quarantine official is given in the preceding summary. Terminal Inspection of Hail Shipments of Plants and Plant Products (Act Mar. 4, 19157 as amended June 4, 193^1 Postal Laws and Regulations 19^0, see. 59$) Establishment of Terminal 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. 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 cut- ride 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 193& amendment to the lav;, any State may arrange through Federal channels, after approval 'oy the Secretary of Agriculture as indicated above, to regulate or prohibit the movement into UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA - llllllllllilllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllKIIII 3 1262 09314 8434 (or within) the State of nail 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 products will then he 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 he 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 ex- pense. In default of such request the parcel will be turned over to the State 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 the summary of the general nursery-stock shipping requirements for each of the above-mentioned States, District, and Territories. e Procedure for Paying Forwarding Postage. — Methods of paying forwarding postage are provided to ermpedite 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.