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 REMEMBER - CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT/MINISTRY BEFORE ORDERING SEEDS FROM OVERSEAS! KEEP YOUR COUNTRY FREE OF EXOTIC BUGS, PLANT DISEASES AND WEED SPECIES! THE RULES ARE HERE
 
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds  Open pollinated varieties of all garden vegetables, plus garlic. Heirloom Edibles, Virtual Seeds Company, PO Box 684, Selma, Oregon 97538. Order online, or fax 1-240-218-7684, phone 1-240-218-7684. We will mail seeds to Canada, Europe, UK, Australia, Japan. Most seed orders will ship via International Priority mail and the average cost is $5.00 US. We accept Visa or Mastercard payments on our secure site. Visit our site for garden tips, fact sheets, and a wide range of heirloom vegetables. Personal service guaranteed! 
http://www.heirloomedibles.com/heirloomedibles.html
 
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ANI Direct - herbs, chile peppers, chinese herbs, stir fry vegetable, fruit, nut seeds, many unusual
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anico/seeds.htm
 
Chuck Wyatt's Heirloom Tomatoes -heirloom open pollinated tomato seeds for home gardeners, more varieties than you have seen in your life, from 'Abe Lincoln' to 'Zogola'. www.heirloomtomatoes.net
 
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds  Open polliinated varieties of all garden vegetables, plus garlic. Heirloom Edibles, Virtual Seeds Company, PO Box 684, Selma, Oregon 97538. Order online, or fax 1-240-218-7684, phone 1-240-218-7684.
http://www.heirloomedibles.com/heirloomedibles.html                                                                                                        07/01
 
Passiflora -  Seeds of 9 species of edible passionfruit. Also a selection of varieites of Passiflora edulis.  http://members.aol.com/pasiflora1
 
Redwood City Seed Company - specializing in rare and endangered vegetables and hot peppers. Order the print catalogue from the site. No on line catalogue at this time. www.batnet.com/rwc-seed
 
Seeds by Size -an extensive list of vegetable varieties, both USA and EEC, which can be bought in any quantity by the gram.  www.SEEDS-BY-SIZE.CO.UK
 
Stokes Seeds. - Vegetable and herb seeds. Catalogue with notes free on request  Email: Stokes@stokeseeds.com
http://stokeseeds.com  PO Box 548 Buffalo, NY  14240-0548 Phone: (716) 695-6980 Fax: 1-888-834-3334
 
Subtropical fruit seeds  - subtropical fruit seeds - tamarillo, casana, Japanese raisin tree, 5 species of passionfruit (some rare), surinam cherry, feijoa, cape gooseberry, and more. Full details, photographs, and catalogue of seeds is at our website - Nestlebrae Exotics http://www.helensville.co.nz/nestlebrae.htm  or email us at Nestlebrae.Exotics@xtra.co.nz
 
Tropical and Asian vegetable seeds some fruit seeds. Order on-line, shipped worldwide. Tropical Seeds, an e-company of Green Co, 81/10 B Ho Vav Hue Street, Dist. PHU NHUAN, Ward 9, HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM  Phone Office: (+84 8) 847 6901 or (+848) 844 1392, Fax : (+848) 844 1392,  eFax: (+1)(509) 275 5426 (Send your fax. It will end up in our E-mail box)
http://www.tropical-seeds.com

Rare Tropical Fruit Seeds from Africa I am interested in exchanging seeds of uncommon tropical fruit. As at mid 2007, I can supply Balsamocitrus dawei, an uncommon Ugandan fruit. Contact Søren Jegindø to arrange a swap -  sje "at" deniva.or.ug      2007

Govardhan Gardens. Tropical rare fruit seed sales and exchange.
http://www.organicfarm.net

 
Thompson & Morgan Seed Company -  vegetable seeds, some unique cultivars. On-line ordering, on-line catalogue (to come soon) . www.thompson-morgan.com

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The 5th edition of the 'Garden Seed Inventory' is now available from the Seed Savers Exchange (3076 North Winn Road, Decorah, Iowa 52101, USA; Tel+1 319-382-5990, FAX +1 319-382-5872). It's a consists of 803+ pages of the names and describtions of open-pollinated plants. It also lists commercial sources in both the US and Canada. The softcover edition is $26 plus $3 shipping to US addresses. Enquire for the cost of shipping overseas. A hardcover edition is available for $32.                                         03/99
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International Seed Saving Institute (ISSI), a nonprofit organization promoting seed saving of open pollinated vegetables in USA and Internationally. Establishing a seedbank for germplasm conservation.
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AUSTRALASIANS ESPECIALLY, CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL AGRICULTURE OFFICE BEFORE ORDERING SEEDS FROM OVERSEAS!
 
Here are the Australian Rules . I have linked to the search page you need. Ignore the instruction to 'try again', just wait till the page fully loads, type in the common name (e.g. lettuce) or latin name (e.g. Lactuca) in the 'commodity' field and click on 'pattern match'. You get back full details of the entry requirements. An excellent and easy to use system, covering all you need to know and do.
http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon/asp/ex_QueryResults.asp?Commodity=&Area=&EndUse=Plants+or+Seeds&QueryType=Pattern+Match
Here are the  New Zealand Rules for seeds for sowing in the garden-
URL:  http://www.maf.govt.nz/Plants/import/seedsgrainnuts/sowing-sn.htm is the 'introductory bit.
 
Cutting thru' the jargon, it seems you must download the PDF file of the 'general rules' regarding need for botanical name etc from  http://www.maf.govt.nz/Plants/import/seedsgrainnuts/155-02-05.pdf .
 
To find out if the type (species) of seed you want is allowed in, look it up in the on-line index at http://www1.maf.govt.nz/cgi-bin/bioindex/bioindex.pl .
 
Unfortunately, unlike the Australian database, you cannot look up a plant by its common name (eg 'lettuce'). The box where you can do a search under common name simply does not work at this time (December 2000). Might be worth checking later. So you must know the botanical name ('Latin binomial') and type in either the genus or species. (If you don't know the latin name this database will convert most common names to latin for you quickly and easily.)  When you type in the genus, the first letter must be in capitals (for lettuce, genus Lactuca), or it will tell you no record is found, even tho' the actual spelling is correct. In the Latin or 'scientific' name, the species name doesn't have a capitalisation of the first letter (e.g. for lettuce, genus is 'Latuca', species is sativa) . So if you must not use a capital in the species search box, or you will get a no result message. And make sure you spell the latin name correctly. One letter wrong and you get 'no result'.
 
Finally, only the plant species in the list are allowed in. If the species you want is not on the list, you can only import it if you can show it is already here... Prior to about 1994 any species at all could come in, except for a relatively small list of 'baddies' - seeds known or suspected to carry disease, or known to be weedy. So the plant you are looking for might possibly already be in New Zealand already, but short of a backyard by backyard survey of the entire country, you may never find it. Asking around the Tree Crop/herb/seed saver type organisations might help. You can 'theoretically' apply to have the weed status risk assessed by the Environmental Risk Management Authority, and apply to have the disease risk assessed by MAF, but for practical purposes the cost is so high ($750 for the most basic application as at December 2000 - and that is just ERMA charges, MAF charges can be added to that ) that it is an option only for the extremely wealthy or commercial firms.
 
The USDA APHIS controls the entry of seeds and plants etc at the border. The nearest I can see to actual information on seeds is this-
 
"Seeds (Seeds of flowers and vegetables are generally enterable. Seeds of woody trees and shrubs require a nursery stock permit from PPQ.)" from yet another PDF file on this page http://www.aphis.usda.gov/travel/bring.html  You could thrash around this page http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/new/pe.html, but specific information on the rules for importing seed, or where to get a permit for seed of 'woody trees and shrubs' is not obvious.
 
Help - if there is a clear and comprehensive web page of rules for importing home garden vegetable, herb, grain, legume, and fruiting and nut-bearing tree seed into USA, Canada and UK, please email the URL!!!! ( address is  removethisspamtrapcontact@naturalhub.com
 
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