---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2241b"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2241b"
heading: "Purchase of seeds and plants for distribution"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2241b"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2241b. Purchase of seeds and plants for distribution


Purchase and distribution of vegetable, field, and flower seeds, plants, shrubs, vines, bulbs, and cuttings shall be of the freshest and best obtainable varieties and adapted to general cultivation.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 527; Apr. 25, 1896, ch. 140, 29 Stat. 106.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 415 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1896—Act Apr. 25, 1896, struck out “by the Department of Agriculture” and “trees”, and inserted “vegetable, field, and flower seeds” and “bulbs”.