---
type: "LegalText"
title: "7 U.S.C. § 2241b"
description: "Purchase of seeds and plants for distribution"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
chapter_number: "55"
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
section: "2241b"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2241b"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s2241b"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-07/usc07.xml"
source_hash: "196d15a45f9bf7ba5b5b0a610edddd4546d6d442c6f2f87326fd32d916b04f6c"
raw_snapshot_hash: "50edab1679a711653797362c0aeb8f2273303fe473fb7fa16df1ee76bdd6e984"
text_hash: "76a482129d5b08b0440c1c761a0836a19c65f6cc75822969a4372f2323309cf0"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 7 U.S.C. § 2241b - Purchase of seeds and plants for distribution

## Text

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.

(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.

Amendments1896—Act Apr. 25, 1896, struck out “by the Department of Agriculture” and “trees”, and inserted “vegetable, field, and flower seeds” and “bulbs”.