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the insect investigated by me in New Jersey. With this guide I began to 

 seek the point of original introduction and believe that I have located it 

 in one of our nurseries. Pear stocks from France and Germany are an- 

 nually imported in large numbers to be used for budding upon them 

 American varieties, and there is little question that of these stocks some 

 that reached New Jersey harbored this insect. I have reason to believe 

 that the period of importation was some ten years ago, and that New 

 Jersey, north of Newark, is infested more or less by the species. It is 

 said to have already extended into New York State, but I have no definite 

 information on this subject. 



The San Jose Scale in New York.-- During the latter part of the season 

 Messrs. Victor H. Lowe and F. A. Sirrine were appointed by the New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station, to make entomological investiga- 

 tions on Long Island, with headquarters at Jamaica. These young geu- 

 tlemen were handicapped, of course, by lack of familiarity with the lo- 

 cality and crops grown, and by having only the fag end of the season to 

 work in. They have, however, discovered the presence of the ' ' pernicious 

 scale" in several nurseries on Long Island, and there seems to be no sort 

 of doubt that the scale has been quite widely distributed by them. The 

 interesting point is that most of these nurseries did not grow the infested 

 stock, but received it from other nursersies and those not in New Jersey. 

 The latter State is not guiltless, however, in the matter of supplying New 

 York State, because one orchard in Columbia County is certainly infested 

 from a New Jersey nursery. Dr. Lintner has investigated this locality 

 and finds the scale present on a number of trees. It seems probable, 

 also, that other centres of infection exist in the Hudson River Valley, and 

 that to the nurseries the eastern farmer owes a serious pest, which will 

 require constant watching and warfare if fruit is to be raised. 



Cranberry Insects Again. In the last number of the NEWS a " Farmer's 

 Bulletin" on this subject was referred to as issued from the office of Ex- 

 periment Stations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The director, 

 Mr. A. C. True, informs me that this is an injustice to his office, as the 

 "Farmer's Bulletins" have been removed from its jurisdiction and con- 

 trol. This seems to shift the responsibility to some other Division, or to 

 the head of the Department itself. I really cannot ascertain which. 



But a truly interesting and valuable contribution on the subject of Cran- 

 berry insects we have from the pen of Mr. S. H. Scudder in "Insect 

 Life," vol. vii, p. i. It identifies and describes the "Girdle-worm" of 

 the cranberry grower with Crambus topiarius Zell. This is a matter of 

 considerable interest, for the species has been known and unidentified for 

 at least eleven years. I heard of it in 1883 at Cape Cod, and in my report 

 to Prof. Riley, published in Special Bulletin, No. 4, of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, pp. 32 and 33, I described the injury caused, as well 

 as what I could learn of the author. I could not at that time find any^ 

 larva? and was unable, later on, to return to the subject. In 1889, when 



