INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 487 



SCALE-INFESTED DISTRICTS. 



During the past year the San Jose scale has been found in several new 

 localities, and in a few cases it was found so near to nurseries that it 

 became a serious question as to the advisability of giving the owners 

 certificates, although the nursery stock was to all appearances free from 

 infestation. In all such cases we have advised the nurserymen to talie 

 the matter in hand and see that the instructions given t<J the owners of 

 infested stocli were carried out. 



Last year thirty-two counties were reported as having had the scale. 

 To this list may now be added seven more, viz., Warriclv, Orange, Daviess, 

 Jay, Hancocli, Randolph and Ellihart. Vanderburgh County is perhaps 

 the worst infested county in the State — at least, more infested orchards 

 have been found there than elsewhere. During the summer I visited the 

 Southern Insane Hospital, near Evansville, and found that the authorities 

 there had destroyed a good many trees and shrubs according to the di- 

 rections given one year ago; but there were others badly infested which 

 were condemned. My assistant, Mr. J. G. Gentry, found several infested 

 orchards near McCutcheonville, in the same county, but the owners had 

 been using the spray pump to good advantage, so that the outlooli in that 

 locality Is quite encouraging. 



The only infested trees found thus far in Orange County were in Paoli, 

 and these had been given such vigorous treatment that scarcely a live 

 scale remained at the time of my visit in August. Princeton, Gibson 

 County, however, was not so fortunate. Here the scale was found to be 

 pretty well scattered all over the city, aud while the city council finally 

 tooli some action concerning it, yet practically nothing had been done, 

 and the insect was left to continue its depredations indefinitely. 



In the town of Linton. Greene County, where so many of the houses 

 are either owned or rented by miners, who have but little time or in- 

 clination, for that matter, to devote to suoli matters, the condition is even 

 worse than it was a year ago. Here, too, the town authorities, I believe, 

 ordered all infested trees to be destroyed, but made no provisions for 

 carrying the order into .effect; hence the usual result. It is of no use for 

 towns or cities to pass laws relating to this matter without maliing some 

 one responsible for their enforcement. 



A few weeks ago I received a scale-infested branch of an apple tree 

 from the village of Fortville, Hancock County. I visited the place and 

 found that in one orchard, situated in the edge of town, nearly every tree 

 was more or less infested, and some were so near dead as to be past sav- 

 ing. Here, as in many other places, I found that the trees which were 

 originally infested came from the Hoover <k: Gains nursery, Dayton, Ohio, 

 some years ago, before the firm went out of business. I was informed 

 that the agent who sold those trees also filled several other orders there, 

 so it is more than likely that other orchards in that locality are infested. 



