II. The New York Plum Scale. 



Leccmium jnglandis ? Bouche. 



This insect (Fig. 46), which suddenly appeared in overwhelming 

 numbers in many of the largest plum orchards in western New 



York in 1894, was 

 discussed in detail 

 in our Bulletin No. 

 83, December, 1894. 

 The bulletin is not 

 yet out of print and 

 can be obtained by 

 addressing theDirec- 

 tor of the Experi- 

 ment Station. Sev- 

 eral new and import- 

 ant facts have been 

 learned about the in- 

 sect since the bulle- 

 tin was published, 

 and these are includ- 

 ed in the following 

 notes which aim to 

 give fruit-growers 

 the latest news 

 about this serious 

 pest. 



Extent of its dam- 

 age in ISOJf.. — The 

 serious picture we 

 drew in Bulletin 83 of the ravages of the insect did not tell half the 

 truth. Before the winter was far advanced, it was found that the strain 



46.— Plum branches badly infe.sted with the fuU-grown 

 scales, natural size. 



