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May /s, 



fixed to the plant and their chance to 

 travel is confined to a day or two just 

 after they are born or hatched as the case 

 may be. Treatment is much as already 

 advised and is also effective in proportion 

 to the promptness and thoroughness 

 with which the application is made. No 

 use to appl3' weak washes to mature 

 scales. 



Now it has been suggested that I should 

 say something about the San Jose scale 

 and about the attempts to legislate it 

 out of existence. I am afraid that almost 

 too much has been already said on the 

 subject — enough at any rate to induce 

 Germany to forbid the entrance of our 

 fruit and living plants into her markets. 

 Just how far this will be enforced, it is 

 impossible to say at present, but perhaps 

 far enough to make the unwisdom of the 

 "scare" that has been caused, thoroughly 

 apparent. That this insect is a destruct- 

 ive one if left to itself, is beyond question, 

 and that we have not yet found the best 

 method of dealing with it may also be 

 admitted. I am firmly convinced, how- 

 ever, that legislation is not that best 

 method, for laws do not enforce them- 

 selves, and if the energy displayed in 

 securing legislation were devoted to expe- 

 riments in the orchard, the result might 

 be different. We know the life history of 

 the insect now, thoroughly; we know 

 that we can kill it if we are persistent, 

 and as compared with some plant dis- 

 eases it is almost harmless. In the very 

 worst infested district in New Jersey the 

 fire blight killed more trees last year than 

 the scalehas done in the ten years that it 

 has been with us. In one of the best peach 

 orchards in New Jersey the scale has been 

 present ever since it was put out. None 

 but careful horticultural treatment was 

 given until the present winter and of 

 more than 1,000 trees, not one has ln-en 

 in the least harmed by the scale. Plant 

 disease cut off 10% of the orchard last 

 year, and 20% of some varieties. Why 

 not legislate against that? 



Legislation has a place undoubtedly in 

 our battle with insect foes, but it is 

 rather to give us a weapon than to act 

 itself. There are always some men who 

 are behind the times or who are congeni- 

 tally unable to comprehend that any one 

 has rights that they are bound to respect. 

 Such men occur among the farmers as 

 well as elsewhere, and in some cases they 

 maintain a veritable nuisance on their 

 grounds in the form of insect infested 

 plants from which adjoininglands become 

 infested; such men should be compelled to 

 look after their property to the extent of 

 saving their neighbors, and legislation 

 can help us to that point and no further. 

 Of course, inspection of nurseries is a good 

 thing in so far as it informs the nursery- 

 man of the condition of his own affairs 

 and he can make it, if he chooses, the 

 basis of a guarantee to purchasers that 

 his stock is clean. This will be of some 

 tangible benefit to the purchaser if he is 

 careful to deal with responsible firms, but 

 as it is now, a certificate is a protection 

 to a dishonest dealer since it gives him 

 something to hide behind should his stock 

 prove, later, to be either diseased or 

 infested by insects. 



It seems almost as if there was an epi- 

 demic of a new disease which may be 

 called "certificatitis," sweeping through 

 the country, and its most prominent 

 symptom is a craving for a written form- 

 ula which is expected to replace the 

 necessity for personal care and examina- 

 tion. 



It is admitted in the very latest expres- 

 sion from Mr. Alwood, who is one of the 

 chief promotors of legislation, that a 



certificate may be dishonestly affixed to 

 stock or that an inspection may fail to 

 discover infestation if it is slight. As a 

 matter of fact, certificated stock has been 

 received in New Jersey from three states 

 this past winter, infested by the scale. 



In such cases certificates are a positive 

 source of danger, since the purchasers are 

 apt to rely upon them too implicitly and 

 to assume that they are a guarantee 

 which obviates the necessity for personal 

 care and inspection. Whether florists 

 will ever suffer from this pernicious scale 

 is a question. The insect infests almost 

 everything. Its normal food plants are 

 perhaps the tree forms of the rosacea. 

 But vines and shrubs, as roses, black- 

 berry, raspberry and the like, are also 

 infested, and roses particularly, are 

 sources of danger. 



Lucas County Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, Wateryille, 0. — W. N. Farns- 

 worth entertained this society on May 

 12. The principal essays of the day were 

 by J. C. Harrison "SummerCultivation," 

 and by Mrs. Thomas Crofts, whose sub- 

 ject was "A Study on the Flower Garden." 

 Discussions followed both papers. 



San Diago County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, San Diago, Cal. — This society 

 held its quarterly session on April 20. 

 Poultry and lemons were the subjects 

 discussed. The 'feature of the meeting 

 was the description of methods of lemon 

 pruning by A. C. Baronio, of Italy. 



Stark County Horticultural So- 

 ciety Canton, O. — Seventy-five members 

 attended the meeting on April 18. Mr. 

 Bitzer, of New Berlin, made an exhibit of 

 apples and C. W. Faust exhibited forty 

 varieties of carnations, roses and geran- 

 iums. There were the usual discussions. 



Springfield Horticultural Society, 

 Springfield, — At the meeting May 4 

 B. F. Brubaker was the host and seventy 

 members dined at the long tables set in 

 the big barn. The repast preceded the 

 readingof the following essays: "Making 

 Garden," Chase Colvin, South Charles- 

 ton; "Increase of Wisdom," William 

 Rapp, Terre Haute, 0.; "Ye Society's 

 History," Miss Lohrer. The society 

 granted to its friends and members the 

 privilege ol offering premiums on any 

 line of exhibits which thev may choose. 



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