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accounts of its hibernation incorrect, 199. Does not hibern.ate in rubbish, 

 corn fodder, under dead leaves, etc., 199. Its natural bibernating place 

 found to be in tiio dense stools of wild grasses, 199. Futility of former 

 recommendations of burning loose rnbbish, 199. Grass lands where the 

 hibernation occurs should be burned, 199. How the burning should be 

 done, 199. 



San Jos6 Scale, and Otiieu Destructive Scale Insects of New York. 200 



"What scale insects are, 200. Classification, 200. Development, '~'00. 

 Some species useful, 201. Number of species, 201. The apple-tree bark- 

 louse, 201. Its eggs, 202. Food plants, 202. Tbe scurfy bark-louse, 202. 

 Injuries and abundance, 202. Reference to illustrative figures, 202. Ap- 

 pearance of a badly infested tree, 202. Trees attacked by it, 203. The 

 pine-leaf scale-insect, 'J03. Injuries to Austrian pines in Washington 

 Park, Albany, 203. Figures and literature referred to, 203. The white 

 scale infesting conservatories and house plants, 203. Favorite fi>od- 

 plants, 204. List of its food-plants, 204. The maple-tree scale-insect, 

 204. Readily recognized, 204. Immense number of its eggs, 204. De- 

 scription of the scale and reference to figures, 204. Nature and purpose 

 of its secretion, 204. Abundance in Brooklyn and elsewhere, 205. The 

 pliim-treescale-insect, 205. A new and destructive pest, 205. Appearance 

 in several localities in New York, 205. Its identification questioned, 205. 

 Characters of the Lecanium species, 205. Reference to a Bulletin on the 

 plum scale, 205. The figure iilust^ruting it, 206. Tbe San Jos6 scale, 

 206. One of the most pernicious species, 206. Its injuries in California, 



206. An introduced species, 207. Its native home not known, 207. 

 When first observed in California, 207. Occurrence in the Eastern 

 United States, 207. First seen in Virginia, 207. Investigated by tbe 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 207. Trees and shrubs attacked by it, 



207. Believed to have been brought from New Jersey, 207. Experi- 

 ments for its destruction, 208. Discovered in Maryland, 208. Thou- 

 sands of trees infested in Florida, 208. Infested localities in otber East- 

 ern States, 209. Efforts made for its extermination at each locality, 

 210. Its discovery in an apple orchard in Columbia couniy, N. Y., on 

 stock received from New Jersey, 210. Extent of the infestation, 210. 

 Its spread believed to have been arrested, 210. Long Island nur.eries 

 found to be badly infested, 212. The source unknown, 212. Not found 

 in Western New York nurseries, 212. Examination of the Long Island 

 nurseries, 213. Tbe scale found in three of the nurseries, 213. Earnest 

 efforts for its destruction, 213. One of the nurseries censured, 213. 

 Another warmly commended, 214. Most of the eastern infestations 

 traceable to New Jersey, 215. Dr. Smith's efforts for subduing the 

 scale, 216. Aid received from the Wm. Parry nurseries, 217. Re- 

 quested aid refused by the Lovett nurseries, 217. Conduct of the own- 

 ers censurable, 218. The San Jose scale in Ohio, 219. Prof. Webster's 



