Yes, just like the large rats that we received once with some ah equipment. Took almost a year to get rid of them. Karl Church On Feb 22, 2013 4:24 PM, "B Spencer" <bea.spencer@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Interesting. Finally, something more complicated and annoying than the > Agriculture Canada rules. Does this prohibition include importing seeds > from > Canada? We do not have to get any permits for small lots of seeds , the > horticultural kind, for now at least. I got seeds from South Africa, > Germany, the United Kingdom, no problem. As for bulbs and plant material it > is a different story. No permit required from the USA, but the > phytosanitary certificate, shipping costs and brokerage fees (each shipment > will be opened, taxed and levied a fee for "labour"), makes it so > expensive > that only a well to-do and determined person would consider it. I did get > some tree peonies from Alderman's and a couple of grafted cornus mas > (dogwood) from Oregon too, the edible kind, but can only dream about many > new super hardy magnolias for my collection.The phytosanitary certificate > seems to be four times as expensive on the East Coast as it is in Oregon. > Any other country...and it is the same hustle as for you folks only we do > not have an branch of Canada Agriculture on every corner. The permit comes > from Ottawa. I do not have to send a photograph, I think. > Maybe the USDA think that every seed order will come attached with a > terrorist disguised as a pea pod.? All that red tape, yet the Emerald Ash > Borer is destroying out trees to give an example. And how did it get here? > Probably in pallets with some shipment of goods that had nothing to do with > agriculture. > Bea Spencer > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >