iNDlAlsrA HOUTlCULtURAL SOCIETY. 29t 



In the first place, I would say that no insect, no one insect has ever 

 been accorded such an unwelcome reception on the face of the earth. It 

 is disowned by every country on the face of the earth. Just as soon as 

 we get hold of a fact that points to any particular part of the world as 

 its nativity, immediately that nation or country rises up and disowns it. 

 It is the most diflacult one we have ever had to deal with. 



Now, in describing this, I hope you will pardon me in conveying to you 

 what this loolis like, if I use a rather commonplace illustration. Now, I 

 do not mean to say that there are flies on Indiana; there are no flies on 

 Indiana, I linow that; but I trust you will understand what I mean when 

 I say this insect on a tree loolis a great deal lilve a fly specli. Now, you 

 will know just exactly, those who do not already know what it is, what 

 to look for. It is a commonplace expi-ession, as I said before, but it is 

 the best illustration I can give you. If they are overabundant they crowd 

 one another, and they overlay one another. In order that you may Ivnow 

 just to the extent that they will do that, I have brought some of them 

 with me. I will ask this gentleman to pass them to you. I don't think 

 you will want to keep them, but you can see just exactly by these speci- 

 mens, what a tree would look like that was inhabited by those little 

 insects. 



In this bottle are three plums, picked from an infested tree, and by this 

 you can see exactly what the appearance of the fruit is from a badly in- 

 fested tree. 



Now, in order to make it a little clearer to you, I have had these illus- 

 trations made, exaggerated in size, but true so far as form and color are 

 concerned, as nearly as we can get at :it in this way. You will notice 

 upon those twigs, and you wUl notice upon the trees in the orchard, 

 something that is round like a plate and slightly elevated toward the cen- 

 ter, and in the top there is a depression, and at that point there is a nipple- 

 shaped form. It looks like, as my boy explained, a volcano. If you will 

 raise that up with the point of a knife, underneath you will find an object, 

 shaped precisely like that, yellow in color, which is the insect itself. This 

 covering is as much of a protection as is the shell of the turtle to the 

 turtle itself. Now, this is the kind of an insect we are trying to deal 

 with. It is very minute and insignificant in appearance, and that is one 

 of the difficulties; it looks so small, so insignificant, so incapable of doing 

 damage, that people can't understand that it can cause so much trouble, 

 and wonder that there should be so much said about it. 



Most insects reproduce by eggs. This one does not. The new are pro- 

 duced by birth. When they first make their appearance they are of this 

 shape and color (indicating on illustration). You will see some of them, if 

 you look closely, and you- will see the little tiny yellow ones on the twigs. 

 They look like minute particles of dust, and you must look very closely 

 to see that they move at all. They move about for perhaps forty-eight 

 hours, then they will run about over the parts of the tree, or they may 



