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suggestion of Dr. Smith, and from statements made in a recent number 

 oi i\\Q Rural Aew Yorker (of March 9th). The article in the R. N. Y. 

 written by a gentleman connected with that journal, after a visit to Little 

 Silver, N. J., to examine into charges that had been '-pubhcly made 

 that the Lovett Company had done practically nothing to exterminate the 

 scale," publishes the names of" the two nurseries as those of Wm, Parry 

 and the Lovett Company." There can, therefore, be no impropriety in 

 the mention of their names in this Bulletin. 



The Wm. Parry Nurseries. — The nurseries of Wm. Parry are gladly 

 mentioned, for the same reason given for making public the name of the 

 nursery of Keene & Foulk, of Long Island. Unqualified praise is due 

 Mr. Parry for his strenuous efforts for the extermination of the scale in 

 the widely-known and far-famed " Pomona Nurseries," at Parry, and the 

 aid so freely extended, in the endeavors being made for its extermina- 

 tion wherever his extended sales may have borne it.* Promptly upon 

 receiving a request for a list of New York sales which may have dis- 

 tributed the scale throughout the State, the desired list, embracing several 

 hundreds of names, scattered through nearly every county, was sent to 

 me, without any suggestion of compensation for the labor which it neces- 

 sitated. 



The expression of the confidence with which it is believed, orders could 

 be sent at the present time to the Bloodgood Nursery, would apply in, 

 at least, equal force to the Pomona Nurseries, where operations against 

 the scale have been conducted largely under the direction and supervis- 

 ion of the New Jersey State Entomologist, Dr. J. B. Smith. 



The Lovett Company Nurseries. — Of the condition at the Lovett Com- 

 pany Nurseries, the following is reported in the Rural New Yorker, loc. 

 cit. Some bearing trees upon which the scale had been located last au- 

 tumn by Dr. Smith, had meantime been cut down and destroyed. Sat- 

 isfactory apparatus for treating the infested nursery stock was found. 

 Upon the scale being pointed out by Dr. Smith on a considerable num- 

 ber of young pear and apple trees that were heeled in, and in patches 

 here and there in rows, they were cut down as fast as found, and, finally, 

 Mr. Lovett agreed to chop out and burn the entire block. The larger 

 part of the nursery stock had been heeled in, after having been treated 

 with gas. The scales upon them, according to Dr. Smith, had been 

 " practically killed," and, if treated again before being sent out, he would 

 consider them safe. Mr. Lovett would " guarantee to destroy every tree 



*We are indebted to Mr. Parry for the detection of the scale at Kinderhook, N. Y., in the sum- 

 mer of 1894, as noticed on page 210. 



