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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2775",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 3\nREPRODUCTIVE AND OTHER PLANT MATERIAL TO BE DELIVERED TO THE CONTROLLER\nRegulation 12\nPART I\nCEREALS\nQuantity\n1 (1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of ears of seed shall be delivered:—\nFor a wheat, barley or oat variety\n275 ears and 6 kilograms of seed\nFor a rye variety\n5 kilograms of seed\nFor a maize variety\n500 grams of seed of the commercial hybrid and 200 grams of seed of each of the parents and parental lines of the commercial hybrid\nFor a triticale variety\n4 kilograms of seed\nFor an F1 hybrid variety of wheat\n275 ears from the final cross, 8.5 kilograms of seed from the final cross and 100 ears of each parent\n(2) Attached to each ear there shall be a minimum of 25 centimetres of straw.\n(3) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.\nPacking\n2 The ears shall be packed in bundles of not more than 100, lightly wrapped, in a stiff-sided container.The seeds shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand mechanical damage during transit due to handling.\nQuality\n3 (1) The seed shall comply with the following standards:—\n(a) Wheat, Barley, Oats and Rye\nMax no. of other seeds or structures in a sample of 500g\nKind\nMin germination (% by number of pure seeds)\nMin analytical purity (% by weight)\nMax moisture content (% by weight)\nMax loose smut infection (% by number)\nAll other species\nOther cultivated cereal species\nAll species other than cultivated cereals\nWild oats(Avena fatua, Avena sterillis or Avena ludoviciana) and darnel (Lolium temulentum)\nWild radish(Raphanus raphanistrum) and Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago)\nErgot (pieces)\nWheat, Barley and Oats\n85\n98\n16\n0.5\n10\n7\n7\n0\n3\n3\nRye\n85\n98\n16\n—\n10\n7\n7\n0\n3\n3\n(b) Maize\nMin germination (% by number of pure seeds)\nMin analytical purity (% by weight)\nMax no. of seeds of other plant species in a sample of 250g\n90\n98\n0\n(c) Triticale\nThe minimum germination by number of pure seeds shall be 85%. The seed shall not be affected by harmful organisms and must originate from the growing period immediately preceding the tests.\n(2) The seed shall be free from insects.\nDressings and Treatments\n4 The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.\nPART II\nPOTATOES\nQuantity\n1 (1) During the year beginning with the making of the application 200 seed tubers shall be delivered; these seed tubers shall be from stocks grown in Scotland or Northern Ireland or the English counties of Northumberland (excluding the districts of Blyth Valley and Wansbeck) and Cumbria (excluding the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland).\n(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered seed tubers taken from stocks grown in any of the places specified in sub-paragraph 1 (1) above in such quantity and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.\n(3) The applicant shall arrange for the growing in the United Kingdom of a plot of at least 2,000 plants of the potato variety to be observed under normal conditions during each of the seasons following the delivery of the seed tubers.\nPacking\n2 The seed tubers shall be securely packed in new sacks or other new containers which are capable of withstanding the hazards that may be encountered by perishable produce during transit.The packing material shall be adequate in quantity and quality to protect the tubers from low temperature which may cause chilling or frosting and from damage due to handling.\nGrading and Condition\n3 The seed tubers shall be graded so as to be capable of being retained by meshes of a riddle each measuring 35mm square and passed by meshes of a riddle each measuring 50mm square.The seed tubers shall be in sound condition and not be visibly unfit for planting through damage due to handling or attack by any insect, pest or disease or any other condition which would impair their subsequent growth.The seed tubers shall be reasonably free from soil.\nDressings and Treatments\n4 The seed tubers shall not have been treated with a fungicide, pesticide or sprout inhibitor.\nHealth\n5 (1) The land on which the seed tubers have been produced shall be land which:—\n(a) is not deemed for the purpose of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 or the Plant Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 to be land on which wart disease of potatoes (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) (Perc.)) is present;\n(b) is not declared for the purposes of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 to be land on which potato cyst eelworm (Globodera rostochiensis (Woll) Mulvey and Stone and Globodera pallida (Stone) Mulvey and Stone) is present;\n(c) is not land on which the occupier has been served with a notice under the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 requiring him to adopt measures for the prevention of the spread of potato cyst eelworm as specified by the notice; and\n(d) is land which has not at any time been used for growing potatoes during the period of five years immediately preceding the planting of the crop from which the seed tubers are produced.\n(2) The seed tubers shall be accompanied by a certificate issued by as the case may be the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, The Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland stating:—\n(a) the seed tubers are the produce of a crop grown on land not known to be infected by wart disease of potatoes or infested by potato cyst eelworm;\n(b) the seed tubers are the produce of a crop which was inspected during the growing season and deemed on visual examination to be free from infection with tobacco veinal necrosis virus and to contain not more than the following tolerances for other diseases and impurities—\n(i) 0.05% of rogues, undesirable variations, wildings and bolters;\n(ii) 0.02% with leaf roll or severe mosaic;\n(iii) 0.20% of plants with mild mosaic;\n(iv) 1% of plants with blackleg.\n(c) the seed tubers were found on visual examination to be free from signs of wart disease of potatoes; and\n(d) the seed crop from which the tubers were produced was not so affected by any other disease or pest as to render it unsuitable for seed purposes.\nPART III\nFODDER PLANTS\nQuantity\n1 (1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:—\nFor a ryegrass variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a timothy variety\n500 grams\nFor a cocksfoot variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a tall fescue variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a meadow fescue variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a red fescue variety\n500 grams\nFor a velvet bent variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a red top variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a creeping bent variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a brown top variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a wood meadowgrass variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a swamp meadowgrass variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a smooth-stalked meadowgrass variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a rough-stalked meadowgrass variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a lucerne variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a red clover variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a white clover variety\n500 grams\nFor a lupin variety\n4 kilograms\nFor a fenugreek variety\n45 grams\nFor a fodder kale variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a swede variety\n100 grams\nFor a festulolium variety\n2 kilograms\nFor a sainfoin variety\n3 kilograms\nFor a birdsfoot trefoil variety\n750 grams\n(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.\nPacking\n2 The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.\nQuality\n3 The seed shall comply with the following standards:—\nKind\nMin germination (% by number of pure seeds or pure pellets)\nMaximum hard seed content (% by number of pure seeds or pure pellets)\nMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)\nMaximum content of seeds of other plant species (% by weight)\n(a)Up to the maximum content indicated, hard seeds present shall be considered as seeds capable of germination.\n(b)All fresh and healthy seeds which do not germinate after pre-treatment shall be considered as seeds which have germinated.\nPerennial ryegrass\n86\n—\n96\n1.5\nOther ryegrasses\n82\n—\n96\n1.5\nTimothy\n86\n—\n96\n1.5\nCocksfoot\n86\n—\n90\n1.5\nTall fescue\n86\n—\n95\n1.5\nMeadow fescue\n86\n—\n95\n1.5\nRed fescue (including chewings fescue\n82\n—\n90\n1.5\nRed top\n80\n—\n90 2.0\nVelvet bent, creeping bent and brown top\n75\n—\n90 2.0\nMeadow grasses\n75\n—\n85 2.0\nRed clover\n80\n20\n97\n1.5\nWhite clover\n80\n40\n97\n1.5\nLucerne\n80\n40\n97\n1.5\nBlue lupin\n75\n20\n98 0.5\nOther lupins\n80\n20\n98 0.5\nFenugreek\n80\n—\n95\n1.0\nFodder kale\n86\n—\n98\n1.0\nSwede\n86\n—\n98\n1.0\nFestulolium\n82\n—\n96\n1.5\nSainfoin\n75\n20\n95\n1.5\nBirdsfoot trefoil\n75\n40\n95\n1.5\n4 The seeds shall also comply with the following standards where appropriate:\nMaximum permitted content of seed impurities (by number or as a percentage by weight)\nKind\nWeight of sample for determination of foreign seeds by number (gms)\nWild oat or dodder No.\nRumex spp. (docks and sorrels) excluding R. acetosella (sheep’s sorrel) andR. martimus (golden dock) No.\nBlackgrass %\nCouchgrass %\nMelilotus spp. %\nMax. content of any one other plant species %\n(a)In perennial ryegrass awned ryegrass seeds shall not exceed 1% by weight in seeds of a variety known not to produce seeds with awns.\n(b)I seed of dodder in a sample of the size specified in column 2 shall not be regarded as an impurity if a second sample of the same weight is free from dodder.\n(c)In meadow fescue there shall be no more than a total of 20 seeds of rye grass in a sample of the size specified in column 2.\n(d)In meadowgrasses a maximum of 0.8% by weight of seeds of other meadowgrasses shall not be regarded as an impurity.\n(e)In lupins the percentage by number of bitter lupin seeds in sweet varieties shall not exceed 3.0 and the percentage by number of seeds of another colour shall not exceed 2.0 in bitter lupins and 1.0 in other lupins.\n(f)In lupins the presence of a maximum of 0.5% by weight in total of seeds of other lupins, Hungarian, common or hairy vetch, field pea and field bean shall not be regarded as an impurity.\nRyegrasses\n60\n0\n20\n0.3\n0.5\n—\n1.0\nTimothy\n10\n0\n5\n0.3\n0.3\n—\n1.0\nCocksfoot\n30\n0\n10\n0.3\n0.3\n—\n1.0\nTall fescue\n50\n0\n20\n0.3\n0.5\n—\n1.0\nMeadow fescue\n50\n0\n20\n0.3\n0.5\n—\n1.0\nRed fescue (including\n30\n0\n10\n0.3\n0.5\n—\n1.0\nchewings fescue)\nRed top\n5\n0\n2\n0.3\n0.3\n—\n1.0\nVelvet bent, creeping bent and brown top\n5\n0\n2\n0.3\n0.3\n—\n1.0\nMeadowgrasses\n5\n0\n2\n0.3\n0.3\n—\n1.0\nRed clover\n50\n0\n20\n—\n—\n0.3\n1.0\nWhite clover\n20\n0\n10\n—\n—\n0.3\n1.0\nLucerne\n50\n0\n20\n—\n0.3\n1.0\nBlue Lupin\n1000\n0\n20\n—\n—\n0.3\n0.3\nOther lupins\n1000\n0\n20\n—\n—\n0.3\n0.3\nFodder kale\n100\n0\n20\n—\n—\n—\n0.5\nSwede\n100\n0\n20\n—\n—\n—\n0.5\nFestulolium\n60\n0\n20\n0.3\n0.5\n—\n1.0\nSainfoin\n600\n0\n2\n0.3\n—\n—\n1.0\nBirdsfoot trefoil\n50\n0\n2\n0.3\n—\n—\n1.0\nDressings and Treatments\n4 The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.\nPART IV\nOIL AND FIBRE PLANTS\nQuantity\n1 (1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:—\nFor a flax or linseed variety\n1.5 kilograms\nFor an oenothera variety\n6 grams\nFor a swede rape including oilseed rape variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a white mustard variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a brown or black mustard variety\n1 kilogram\nFor a coriander variety\n500 grams\nFor a borage variety\n20 grams\nFor a sunflower variety\n1 kilogram and 5,000 seeds of each parental line and each restorer line\nFor a turnip rape variety\n1 kilogram\nPacking\n2 The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.\nQuality\n3 (1) The seed shall comply with the following standards:—\nAnalytical Purity\nMaximum content by number of seeds of other plant species in a sample of the following weight:\nSwede rape including oilseed rape\n— 100 grams\nFlax and linseed\n— 150 grams\nWhite mustard\n— 200 grams\nBrown and black mustard\n— 40 grams\nSunflower\n— 1,000 grams\nTurnip rape\n— 70 grams\nKind\nMinimun germination (% of pure seed)\nMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)\nMaximum content seed of other plant species (% by weight)\nOther plant species\nWild Oat (Avena fatua. A. ludoviciana, A. sterilis)\nDodder (Cuscuta spp.)\nWild Radish (Raphanus Raphanistrum)\nRumex spp (docks and sorrels) excludingR. acetosella (sheeps sorrel) and R. maritimus (golden dock)\nBlack grass (Alepecurus myosuroides)\nLolium remotum\n(a)One seed of dodder in a sample of the prescribed weight shall not be regarded as an impurity where a second sample of the same weight is free from any seeds of dodder.\nSwede rape including Oilseed rape\n85\n98\n0.3\n—\n0\n0\n10\n5\n—\n—\nTurnip rape\n85\n98\n0.3\n—\n0\n0\n10\n5\n—\n—\nFlax\n92\n99\n—\n15\n0\n0\n—\n—\n4\n2\nLinseed\n85\n99\n—\n15\n0\n0\n—\n—\n4\n2\nOenothera\n85\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\nWhite mustard\n85\n98\n0.3\n—\n0\n0\n10\n5\n—\n—\nBrown and Black mustard\n85\n98\n0.3\n—\n0\n0\n10\n5\n—\n—\nCoriander\n80\n95\n0\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\nBorage\n75\n98\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\nSunflower\n85\n98\n—\n5\n0\n0\n—\n—\n—\n—\n(2) The seed shall be of a satisfactory state of health as far as seed-borne organisms and diseases affecting the seeds are concerned. In particular the seed shall not exceed the following standards:—\nKind\nHarmful Organisms\nMaximum percentage by number of seeds contaminated by harmful organisms (total per column)\nSclerotinia sclerotiorum (maximum number of sclerotia or fragments of sclerotia in a sample of the weight specified in column 4 of Schedule 3)\nBotrytis spp.\nAlternaria spp., Phoma exigua var. linicola Colletotrichum lini, Fusarium spp.\n(a)In flax the maximum percentage by number of seeds contaminated by Phoma exigua var.linicola shall not exceed 1%.\nSwede rape and Turnip Rape including Oilseed Rape\n—\n—\n5\nFlax & Linseed\n5\n5\n—\nWhite mustard\n—\n—\n5\nSunflower\n5\n—\n10\nDressings and Treatments\n4 The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.\nPART V\nVEGETABLES (including Field Beans and Field Peas)\nQuantity\n1 (1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:—\nFor a pea variety (including a field pea variety)\n3 kilograms\nFor a French bean variety\n4 kilograms\nFor a runner bean variety\n11 kilograms\nFor a broad bean variety\n23 kilograms\nFor a field bean variety\n11 kilograms\nFor a lettuce variety\n115 grams\nFor a celery or celeriac variety\n10 grams\nFor a marrow variety\n230 grams\nFor a Brussels sprout variety\n125 grams\nFor a cabbage variety\n125 grams\nFor a cauliflower variety\n125 grams\nFor a turnip variety\n150 grams\nFor a tomato variety\n11 grams\nFor a beetroot variety\n450 grams\n(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.\nPacking\n2 The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.\nKind\nMinimum germination (% by number of pure seeds)\nMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)\nMax. content of seeds of other plant species (% by weight)\nPeas (including field peas) 8098\n0.1\nFrench Beans\n75\n98\n0.1\nRunner Beans\n80\n98\n0.1\nBroad Beans\n80\n98\n0.1\nField Beans\n85\n98\n0.5\nLettuce\n75\n95\n0.5\nCelery and Celeriac\n70\n97\n1.0\nMarrows\n75\n98\n0.1\nBrussels Sprouts\n75\n97\n1.0\nCabbages\n75\n97\n1.0\nCauliflowers\n70\n97\n1.0\nTurnip\n80\n97\n1.0\nTomatoes\n75\n97\n0.5\nBeetroot\n70\n97\n0.5\nHealth\n4 The seeds shall be of a satisfactory state of health in so far as seed-borne diseases and organisms affecting the seeds are concerned.\nDressings and Treatments\n5 The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment and shall not be pelleted.\nPART VI\nTOP FRUIT AND ROOTSTOCKS\nQuantity\n1 (1) The following shall be delivered:\nApples\n(2) Eight trees on M9 rootstocks, not less than two and not more than three years old.Alternatively budwood or graftwood sufficient to produce fifteen trees.\nPears\n(3) Three trees on Quince A rootstock, double-worked where necessary.The trees shall be not less than two and not more than three years old. Alternatively, if the Controller shall so allow, scion or bud wood sufficient to produce four trees may be delivered instead of the three trees as mentioned above.\nPlums and Damsons\n(4) Three trees on St. Julien A rootstocks shall be delivered.The trees shall not be less than two and not more than three years old. Alternatively, if the Controller shall so allow, scion or bud wood sufficient to produce four trees may be delivered instead of the three trees as mentioned above.\nCherries\n(5) Three trees on F12/1 or Colt rootstocks.The trees shall be not less than two and not more than three years old.\nApple rootstocks, Pear rootstocks, Plum and Damson rootstocks, Cherry rootstocks and Quince rootstocks.\n(6) Twenty-five well-rooted rootstocks of not less than 7mm in diameter selected from the stool or layer bed.\nHealth\n2 Complete trees and rootstocks\n(1) (a) The trees and rootstocks shall not show symptoms of any virus disease.\n(b) The trees and rootstocks shall be healthy.They shall not be lacking in vigour, or affected by any pests or diseases.\nScion or bud wood or graftwood\n(2) Scion or bud wood or graftwood shall be the produce either of a tree of the variety growing on its own roots or of a tree of the variety which satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph 2(1)(a) and (b) above.\nPART VII\nSOFT FRUIT\nQuantity\n1 (1) The following shall be delivered:\nBlack Currants\n(2) Twelve visually healthy two-year old bushes.\nGooseberries\n(3) Five visually healthy two-year old bushes.\nRaspberries\n(4) Forty visually healthy canes.\nRubus (other than raspberries)\n(5) Six visually healthy young plants\nStrawberries\n(6) Forty visually healthy plants.\nRed Currants\n(7) Four vigorous healthy plants with at least three strong shoots.The plants shall not be more than two years old.\nPART VIII\nRHUBARB\nQuantity\n1 Four plants of the parent stock sufficient to provide 12 single bud roots.\nHealth\n2 The plant material shall be visibly healthy and shall not be lacking in vigour or affected by pests or diseases.\nPART IX\nHOPS\nQuantity\n1 Six one year bedded sets shall be delivered.\nHealth\n2 (a) The sets shall not show symptoms of any virus disease.\n(b) The sets shall be healthy.They shall not be lacking in vigour or affected by pests or diseases.\nPART X\nCONIFERS AND TAXADS\nQuantity\nFour visually healthy vegetatively reproduced trees or shrubs typical of the variety, each at least two but not more than five years old, shall be delivered.\nPART XI\nTREES, SHRUBS AND WOODY CLIMBERS\nQuantity\nThere shall be delivered, in the numbers indicated in respect of varieties of the genera or species specified below, visually healthy, vegetatively reproduced trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, as the case may be, typical of the variety and each at least two but not more than four years old.\nGenera or species\nNumber of trees, shrubs or woody climbers to be delivered\nCalluna Salisb.\n12\nDaboecia D. Don\n12\nErica carnea L., Erica ciliarisa L., Erica cinerea L., Erica x darleyensis Bean, Erica mackaiana Bab., Erica mediterranea Hort., Erica x praegeri Ostenf., Erica tetralix L., Erica vagans L., Erica x watsonii Benth., Erica williamsii Druce\n12\nBrachyglottis Forst. & Forst.\n5\nClianthus puniceus (G. Don) Sol. ex Lindl.\n5\nCoprosma Forst\n5\nCordyline australis (Forst.) Endl. Cordyline banksii Hook., Cordyline indivisa (Forst.) Steud., Cordyline kaspar W.R.B. Oliv., Cordyline pumilio Hook. f.\nCorokia A. Cunn.\n5\nCorynocarpus laevigata J. R. Forst et G. Forst.\n5\nDodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq.\n5\nGriselinia littoralis Raoul. Griselinia lucida Forst. f.\n5\nHoheria A. Cunn.\n5\nLeptospermum ericoides A. Rich. Leptospermum sinclairii Kirk\n5\nLophomyrtus Burret.\n5\nMelicope simplex A. Cunn. Melicope ternata J.R. Forst. et G. Forst.\n5\nMeryta sinclairii (Hook. f.) Seem.\n5\nMetrosideros albiflora Soland. ex Gaertn. Metrosideros carminea Oliv., Metrosideros colensoi Hook. f., Metrosideros diffusa Forst. f., Metrosideros excelsus Sol. ex Gaertn., Metrosideros kermadecensis Oliv., Metrosideros parkinsonii Buch., Metrosideros perforata (Forst. & Forst. f), Metrosideros robustus A. Cunn., Metrosideros scandens (Forst. et Forst. f.) Druce., Metrosideros umbellatus Cav.\n5\nMyrsine australis (A. Rich.) Allan Myrsine chathamica F. Muell., Myrsine coxii Cockayne, Myrsine divaricata A. Cunn., Myrsine kermadecensis Cheesem. Myrsine montana Hook f., Myrsine nummularia Hook. f., Myrsine oliveri Allan, Myrsine salicina Heward\n5\nParahebe W.R.B. Oliv.\n5\nPseudopanax chathamicus T. Kirk Pseudopanax crassifolius (Sol. ex. A. Cunn.), Pseudopanax discolor T. Kirk, Pseudopanax edgerleyi C. Koch., Pseudopanax ferox T. Kirk, Pseudopanax gilliesii T. Kirk, Pseudopanax lessonii (D.C.), Pseudopanax lineare (Hook. f.) K Koch.\n5\nWeinmannia racemosa L. f. Weinmannia silvicola Sol. ex A. Cunn.\n5\nErica arborea L., Erica australis L., Erica lusitanica Rudolfi, Erica scoparia L., Erica terminalis Salisb., Erica x veitchii Bean\n4\nMenziesia Sm.\n4\nAndromeda L.\n3\nBuxus L.\n3\nCaryopteris Bunge\n3\nCassiope D. Don\n3\nCeratostigma Bunge excluding C. plumbaginoides Bunge\n3\nx Gaulnettya W. J. Marchant\n3\nGaultheria Kalm ex L.\n3\nHelianthemum Mill.\n3\nLavendula L.\n3\nPernettya Gaudich\n3\nRuta L.\n3\nSalvia officinalis L.\n3\nSarcococca Lindl. excluding S. saligna Muell.\n3\nTeucrium fruticans L.\n3\nVaccinium L. excluding V. corymbosum L.\n3\nVinca major L.\n3\nVinca minor L.\n3\nAll others not specified above\n2\nPART XII\nDECORATIVES\nQuantity\n1 (1) The following shall be delivered:\nCarnations\n(2) (a) Border carnations and pinks\nTen visually healthy young plants, typical of the variety.\n(b) Perpetual flowering carnations\nSeventy-five unrooted, visually healthy cuttings, each furnished with at least four but notmore than five clearly visible internodes.\nPerennial Chysanthemums\n(3) (a) Year round varieties\nFifty visually healthy cuttings of normal commercial standard.\n(b) Other varieties\nTwenty-five visually healthy cuttings of normal commercial standard.\nDahlias\n(4) Four plants of each disbudded variety and seven plants of each dwarf bedding variety shall bedelivered.The plants shall be typical of the variety and young, visually healthy, green plants.\nPerennial Delphiniums\n(5) Six well-rooted cuttings, or fifteen young plants ex-microprop.\nFreesias\n(6) Twenty-five visually healthy corms of flowering size, typical of the variety.\nGladioli\n(7) Twelve visually healthy corms of flowering size, typical of the variety, shall be delivered each year.\nNarcissi\n(8) Ten visually healthy single nosed bulbs, typical of the variety.\nRhododendrons\n(9) (a) Varieties to be flowered outdoors\nThree plants each with at least three flower buds.\n(b) Pot plant varieties\nThirty plants, twice pinched.\nRoses\n(10) In the case of a miniature variety six trees, in the case of a bush variety four trees, in the case of a shrub variety three trees and in the case of a climbing variety or ground cover variety two trees. The trees shall be first quality visually healthy maiden trees typical of the variety.If the Controller is satisfied that maiden trees cannot be supplied, two-year-old trees may be delivered.\nHerbaceous perennials\n(11) Four visually healthy vegetatively reproduced plants typical of the variety, each one year old.\nCymbidiums\n(12) One mature plant in full flower.\nPelargoniums\n(13) Ten rooted or unrooted cuttings.\nStreptocarpus\n(14) Five full grown plants.\nLilies.\n(15) Ten visually healthy bulbs of flowering size.\nElatior begonias\n(16) Thirty healthy young plants with no visible evidence of flower buds.The plants shall not have been treated with a growth regulator.\nSaintpaulia\n(17) Twenty healthy young plants.\nNerine\n(18) Fifteen dormant bulbs.\nPoinsettia\n(19) Ten rooted cuttings.\nCacti\n(20) Twenty unrooted cuttings.\nGerbera\n(21) Twelve young plants of normal commercial standard.\nKalanchoe\n(22) Twenty young plants, not cut back, in peat blocks.\nImpatiens\n(23) Twenty young plants, of good commercial quality, not cut back, in peak blocks.\nEuphorbia milii\n(24) Twenty, three month old plants.\nScaevola aemula\n(25) Twenty young plants.\nOsteospermum\n(26) Twenty young plants, of good commercial quality, not cut back, in peak blocks.\nGaltonia candicans\n(27) Six visually healthy bulbs.\nAgapanthus\n(28) Four visually healthy plants.\nCheiranthus\n(29) Twenty young plants.\nErysimum\n(30) Twenty young plants.\nFestuca ovina Glauca\n(31) Four young plants.\nPetunia\n(32) Ten grams of seed.\nTrifolium arvense\n(33) Twenty young plants.”",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1993/1320."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R.1993/256."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "(a)Up to the maximum content indicated, hard seeds present shall be considered as seeds capable of germination."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "(b)All fresh and healthy seeds which do not germinate after pre-treatment shall be considered as seeds which have germinated."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "(a)In perennial ryegrass awned ryegrass seeds shall not exceed 1% by weight in seeds of a variety known not to produce seeds with awns."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "(b)I seed of dodder in a sample of the size specified in column 2 shall not be regarded as an impurity if a second sample of the same weight is free from dodder."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "(c)In meadow fescue there shall be no more than a total of 20 seeds of rye grass in a sample of the size specified in column 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "(d)In meadowgrasses a maximum of 0.8% by weight of seeds of other meadowgrasses shall not be regarded as an impurity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "(e)In lupins the percentage by number of bitter lupin seeds in sweet varieties shall not exceed 3.0 and the percentage by number of seeds of another colour shall not exceed 2.0 in bitter lupins and 1.0 in other lupins."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "(f)In lupins the presence of a maximum of 0.5% by weight in total of seeds of other lupins, Hungarian, common or hairy vetch, field pea and field bean shall not be regarded as an impurity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "(a)One seed of dodder in a sample of the prescribed weight shall not be regarded as an impurity where a second sample of the same weight is free from any seeds of dodder."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "(a)In flax the maximum percentage by number of seeds contaminated by Phoma exigua var.linicola shall not exceed 1%."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2775/schedule",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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