1406                                Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 772

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 149 to 156, inclusive, of Article 48 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Inspections", sub-title
"Seed", be and the same are hereby repealed and new Sections 149
to 156, inclusive, enacted in lieu thereof, to follow immediately after
Section 148 of said Article, and to read as follows:

149. (Definitions.) When used in this sub-title—

(a)   The term "person" shall include an individual, a partnership,
corporation, company, society, or association.

(b)  The term "wholesale seedsmen" shall include any person who
sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale or transports for sale seed for
planting purposes to a retail seedsman.

(c)  The term "retail seedsman" shall include any person who
sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale or transports for sale seed for
planting purposes to the consumer.

(d)  The term "consumer" shall include any person who purchases
or otherwise obtains seed for planting purposes but not for resale.

(e)  The term "agricultural seeds" shall include the seeds of grass,
forage, cereal and fiber crops and any other kind of seeds commonly
recognized within this State as agricultural or field seeds, lawn seed
and mixtures of such seeds, and may include restricted noxious weed
seeds when the State Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized
agent determine that such seed is being used as agricultural seed.

(f)  The term "vegetable seeds" shall include the seeds, tubers or
plants of those crops which are grown in gardens or on truck farms
and are generally known and sold under the name of vegetable seeds
within this State.

(g)   The term "flower seeds" shall include seeds of herbaceous
plants grown for their blooms, ornamental foliage or other orna-
mental part and commonly known and sold under the name of flower
seeds in this State.

(h) The term "tree and shrub seeds" shall include seeds of woody
plants and herbs commonly known and sold as tree and shrub seeds in
this State.

(i) The term "weed seeds" shall include the seeds or bulblets of
all plants generally recognized as weeds within this State, and shall
include noxious weed seeds.

(j) Noxious weed seeds are divided into two classes—Prohibited
Noxious weed seeds and Restricted Noxious weed seeds as defined
in (1) and (2) of this paragraph:

(1) "Prohibited Noxious weed seeds" are the seed of perennial
weeds such as not only reproduced by seed but also spread by under-
ground roots, stems, and other reproductive parts, and which when
well established, are highly destructive and difficult to control in this
State by ordinary good cultural practices and the seed of which is
prohibited by this sub-title.

Prohibited Noxious weed seed in this State are the seeds of:

(1)  Cirsium arvense (L) Scop., Canada thistle

(2)  Agropyron repens (L) Beauv., Quackgrass