The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-05

all persons:
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Rule /. All consignees, agents. or
other person or persons, shall, within
twenty four (2D hours, notify the
Quarantine Officer of the State Board
of Horticulture, or duly commissioned
Quarantine Guardian. of the arrival of
any trees. plants, buds, or cions at any
point of debarkation in the State of
California.
Rule II. All trees, plants, cuttings,
CRAFTS, buds, or cions, imported or
brought into the State from any foreign
country, or from any of the United
States or Territories, are hereby re-
quired to be disinfected, as herein
after provided, upon arrival at any
point where they are to be unloaded;
and, furthermore, if any of said trees,
plants cuttings, gratis buds, or cionS
are found infested with insects. or with
any fungi, blight, or other disease in
furious to fruit or to fruit trees, or to
other trees or plants, they shall remain
in quarantine fourteen 1D days, on
until the Quarantine Officer of the State
Board of Horticulture, or a duly COM
missioned Quarantine Guardian, can de-
termine whether the said trees, plants,
cuttings, CRAFTS. buds or cions are free
from live injurious insect pests, or their
eggs, larvae, or pupae, before they can
be offered for sale, gift, distribution, or
transportation.
Rule III. All trees, plants. cuttings,
CRAFTS, buds, or cions, infested with any
insects. fungi, blight, or other diseases
known to be injurious to fruit or to
frllit m troa or la G
and liable to spread contagion are here
by required to be disinfected before be-
ing offered for sale, gift, removal, dis
tribution, or transportation.
Rule ". All peach, nectarine, april
cot, plum or almond trees. and all other
trees budded or grated upon peach
stocks or roots, all peach or other pits,
and all peach. nectarine, apricot, plum.
or almond cuttings, buds. or cion, raised
or grown in district where the peach
yellows'' or the peach rosette" are
known to exist, are hereby prohibited
from being planted or offered for sale,
gift. or distribution within the State
of California.
Rule v All trees, plants. cuttings,
CRAFTS, buds. cions, seeds or pits arriv
ing from any foreign country found in
1tSltu Will iIStct pests OT lIltlI cSSS,
larvae, or pupae. or with fungi, or 9th
er disease or diseases hitherto unknown
in this State, are hereby prohibited from
landing.
Rule VI. Fruit of any kind grown in
any foreign country, or in any of the
United States or Territories, found in
tested with any insect or insects, or
with any fungi blight, or other dis
eases, injurious to fruit or to fruit trees,
to other trees or plants, is hereby pro-
hibited from being offered for sale, gift,
or distribution within the State
Rule VII. Transportable material of
any kind, infested by any insect or in
sects, or their eggs, larvae, or pupae, or
by any fungi blight or other disease
or diseases known to be injurious to
fruit or to fruit trees, or to any other
trees or plants, and liable to spread con-
tagion, is hereby prohibited from being
offered for sale, gift, distribution, or
transportation, until said material has
been disinfected by dipping it in boil
ing water and allowing it to remain
in said boiling water not less than two
minutes; such boiling water, used as
such disinfectant to contain in solu-
ton one pound of concentrated potash
to each and every ten gallons of water.
Rule VIII. All trees, plants, cuttings,
CRAFTS, buds, or cions may be disinfect-
ed by dipping in solution of three
fourthS of a pound of whale-oil soap
go per cent? to each and every gallon
of water; said whale-oil soap solution
shall be kept at a temperature of 100
to 11o degrees. Said trees. plants, cut
tings, gratis buds, on cions shall remain
in said solution not less than two min
utes. After said trees, plants, cuttings.
gratis, buds or cionS have been disin-
fected they shall remain in quarantine
fourteen Q4) days for subsequent in
spection. and if deemed necessary. by
the Quarantine Officer of the State
Board of Horticulture or a duly com
missioned Quarantine Guardian, for
further disinfection.
Rule TX. All trees, plants, cuttings,
gratis. buds. or cions may be disin-
fected by fumigation with hydrocyanic
acid gas, as follows: Said trees, plants,
cuttings, CRAFTS, buds, or cions shall be
covered with alright tent or box. and
for each and every 100 cubic feet of
space therein, two-thirds of an ounce
of c. p cyanide of potassium (9S per
cent?, one fluid ounce of sulphurc acid
and two fluid ounces of water shall be
used. The cyanide of potassium shall
be placed in an earthware vessel the
water poured over the said cyanide Of
potassium, afterward adding the sui
phuric acid, and the tent or box to
be Immediately closed tightly. and al
lowed to remain closed for not less than
forty minutes After said trees, plants.
cuttings. CRAFTS, buds. or cions have
been treated with hydrocyanic acid gas,
as above directed, they shall remain in
quarantine for fourteen D4) days for
subsequent inspection, and If deemed
necessary by members of the State
Board of Horticulture, or the Quaran-
tine Officer Of said board, or a duly
commissioned Quarantine Guardian, for
subsequent disinfection.
Rule X. All trees. plants. cuttings,
CRAFTS. buds, or cions imported or
brought into this State shall he in
spected upon arrival at first point of
debarkation, and if found infested with
mining scales (Chionaspis biclavis) or
other injurious insects which cannot
/ be destroyed by the remedies required
in Rules VIII. and TX Of these regu-
lations, are her eby prohibited from be-
ing planted or offered for sale. gift. or
distribution, and shall be proceeded
against as a nuisance
| Rule XI. Any person or persons hav-
ing in their possession trees plants. cut
tings, gratis. buds. or cions. seeds. or
pits. infested With any insect or in
sects, or with any fungi blight or 9TH
1 er disease or diseases, Injurious to fruit
/ or 10 fruit trees, or to other trees or
plants, and who refuse or neglect to