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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



China is the region lying back of the city of Chifu in the north. This 

 apple-growing industry was started many years ago by a missionary, 

 Dr. Nevius, and has assumed very considerable proportions and covers 

 a good deal of the province of Shantung. Below Shanghai, the orange 

 and other subtropical fruits replace the deciduous varieties. North 

 of Chifu native fruits only are grown, consisting of the native jjear 

 and peach, and such wild fruits as wild crab apples and an edible haw 

 apple. 



A very considerable exploration of the country lying immediately 

 back of Shanghai was made in the course of a long house-boat trip. A 



A Native Fruit Stand in Chifu, China. 



great many peach orchards were examined and a good deal of miscel- 

 laneous fruit and other plants growing about house yards were in- 

 spected. Nowhere was there any evidence of the San Jose scale, nor 

 were scale insects of any sort much to be seen. The climate of this 

 region is unfavorable for such insects and they are normally killed out 

 by fungous disease. The writer afterwards proceeded by boat to Chifu 

 — a five-day ocean trip from Shanghai, and made a considerable ex- 

 ploration throughout the apple orchards of this region on horseback, 

 visiting, among others, the original orchards planted by Dr. Nevius. 

 In all these the San .lose scale was found scatteringly present, not, 

 however, doing any special damage, and probably not enough to be 



