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and if you find it there it is very likely to be in your orchards also. I do 

 not know how it travels 



Prof. Davis : The San Jose scale is not likely to travel on the fruit, 

 and the fruit does not return to the orchard. Birds may carry it while it 

 is young, by its crawling upon their feet. It may also be disseminated by 

 scions. The young will travel but two or three feet from the parent before 

 settling down for life. It could not travel over ground. 



questio:ns, disoussiojsis, repoets. 



NEED OF A NEW POMOLOGY FOR MICHIGAN. 



Taking up the subject of " Need of a New Pomology for Michigan," 

 which was to have been treated in a paper by Mr. B. Hathaway of Little 

 Prairie Ronde, the society listened instead to a brief address by the same 

 gentleman. 



Mr. Hathaway said he was impressed many years ago with the need of 

 a new pomology for this 8tate,'especially for new varieties of the apple, 

 having noticed that the kinds which were at first set and were successful 

 were so no longer. The first test made by severity of winter had affected 

 southern Michigan and Indiana as much as it did Illinois and Iowa, and 

 so decimated his varieties that he could show at fairs but fifty kinds 

 instead of the hundred he before had been able to show. The next such 

 winter left only twenty, and the number has been no better since. The 

 lowans sooner appreciated the situation than did the pomologists of Mich- 

 igan, and set about making a new pomology, and such was their success 

 that at the World's Fair their display by far exceeded ours. The warn- 

 ings spoken by Mr. Hathaway and others passed unheeded, but now their 

 position is conceded by every intelligent horticulturist. " Michigan is all 

 right for fruit," is a familiar expression. So it is, but the old sorts of 

 fruit are not now right for Michigan. That is the point. 



Mr. Hathaway read letters from several gentlemen in the west, giving 

 names of varieties successful there. One of these was from Mr. W. A. 



