NURSERY REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XIII, Issue 1, 20 July 1916, Page 82

NURSERY REGULATIONS.

Regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, introducing the registration of nurseries and governing the sale of specified trees and, plants, were published in the New Zealand Gazette of 22nd June, and came into operation on Ist July. Growers, sellers, and buyers of the class of stock covered by the regulations viz., fruit trees or plants, tomato-plants, timber or shelter trees or plants, hedfeplants, ornamental trees or shrubs or rose-plants—are closely concerned, and should familiarize themselves with the provisions. Under the regulations " nursery ” means any land which is used for growing any of the above-mentioned trees or plants if such are intended for sale for replanting. Any person engaged in raising for sale any of the trees or plants mentioned must first make application to the Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture for the registration of his premises as a nursery, such application to be accompanied by a fee of J£i. Should the nursery stock prove on examination to be “ free ”or nearly free” of the diseases specified in the Orchard ■ and Garden ' Diseases Act, an unconditional certificate will be supplied which will continue in force until 30th April, 1917, unless suspended through an outbreak of disease. Should the stock on examination prove to be affected with disease, the fee will be retained and a conditional certificate will be issued. “ Conditional’’. means that the plants are subject to certain prescribed treatment, and it is only upon such conditions being complied with that sales are allowed from the nursery concerned of the particular stock, prescribed for treatment. The method of "procedure and inspection fees in respect to conditional registration are fixed. Copies of the regulations may be obtained on application to the Director of the Horticulture Division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington. '