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The former realized the very high price of fifty-one shillings 

 per hnndredweight. This, however, is not, according to the 

 brokers' report, to be attributed to their intrinsic value, but to 

 their being in a very small lot and to competition between 

 two bidders who particularly wanted them. "We should not 

 think it safe to expect more than thirty shillings per hun- 

 dredweight for any quantity." 



The red chillis realized twenty-six shillings per hundred- 

 weight. These were reported slightly mouldy and would 

 appear not to ha^'e been properly dried before shipment. — 

 Agricultural Neivs, Barhadoes. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The following communication, written by Dr. Walter H. Evans, 

 Chief of Insular Stations, has been received by The Forester for 

 publication : 



United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, 

 Insular Experiment Stations, 

 Washington. D. C, December 22, 1905. 



"In the Commercial Advertiser of December 2, I noticed a re- 

 port by Mr. Kotinsky of the occurrence of the green scale on 

 vanilla plants in Hawaii, and the statement, Tt is the "green bug,'^ 

 a scale pest which, in seventeen years, wiped out the coffee in- 

 dustry of Ceylon.' I presume by green scale is nieant Lecanium 

 viride. as this species is reported on coffee and many other plants. 

 Neitner, in The Coffee Tree and its Enemies, Ceylon, 1880, re- 

 vised and corrected by S. Green, does not mention this species, 

 but it is noted in Insect Life, Vol. i, p. 2Q3, as quite destructive 

 in Ceylon. In Insect Life, \"'ol. 2, p. 17, kerosene emulsion is 

 reported as having been successfully tried against the green 

 coffee scale. In the same volume, p. 265, Cotes reports the suc- 

 cessful use of kerosene emulsion in Ceylon over a sufficiently 

 large area to test its practical applicability. Zimmermann, in 

 Teysmannia, 9 (1898), No. 5, pp. 240-243, reports Lecanium 

 viride in Java as being attacked and destroyed by a fungus. 

 Cephalosporiuni Iccaiiii. 



