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1'liK Sa.\ .Iosi: Scuk i Axiiiilioliis /icni 

 The San .Icsc s,Ml,. i^ univri-sa lly 

 affi'i-fiiiu' f'l-uil-ln'cs and ..laiaini'nlal,- in X.irlli AiniTicM. In I'.rilisli ( 



V I I. nisi. I. 



Icil as llu- iiKisi sri-iii\is nf llir insrcls 



liavi> liciML fiirtunati'ly vci-y snci-i'sst'nl in thns far maintaining' a |ii-act iral i1i'l."-i'c 

 (if innnnnity frnni liiis prsi. r,iniliticins arc such Ihat lu-ilay i.lannai-y, r.ilH) we 

 arc still able to claim tliat tlic insect is nut a ircncral .irclianl |icst. Wc arc mil 

 alilc I.I claim, with tile same as,surancc as wc used t<> in llic ycais umic li.\. tli.il tlic 

 jicst is not Unown to exist, liecause unfortnnately it has made its appi-a I'aiicc al least 

 at one point in the I'mvince. 



It would lie intiTes'tiiiLT to review Inietly the history of this insect in the 

 I'rovim-c; points at which ils iireseiice is rccordeil. ami nicihods of its introdiici ion. 



In the lirst place. l''lclcher st.ilcs in his .annn.-il fepori ,as Iiominion lailoinoloiiist 

 for l,s'.l4 that -on l>\.i or three occ-ishms il ithe S.in .lose scalei has heeli reported 

 to me as occnrrinL; in I'.rilish I'olnniliia; Iml 1 had .it lirst Ihe imprcssinii that tlic 

 insect refci-red to was the scnrf.\- hark-loiisc i r 7/io)/,/,v/o\ fiirliini'i Fitch, i or somc- 



Ihini; else. Dnriinr Ihe |i,-isl sum r. lio\\c\-er. umlonlitcd specimens of \.^iiitl iot us 



l„'niiri,,siis on aiiple have I ecu received from Ilritish Colnmliia and have hcen 

 identitied liy Mr. ].. (I. Howard." 



This, so far as i-.-in he -athered. is the hrst recoi-de.l instance of Ihe |ircseiice of 

 this scale in Ilritish ( '0111111111.1. That it was !i severe infeslafion may lie i;am,'eil 

 hy the fact Ihat the ■■ .apple-l on-'hs were entirely cncrnsli'd wilh the scales." •I'licrc 

 was no cNldemc in Hr. I-'Ictchcrs re]iort for IMM to show where the oiithrcak was 

 locatiMl or how the scale had entered the I'ro\ince. However, in his feiioil for l^Ho. 

 he rciiorts a \isil he made to r.ritish I'oliimhia to invesliu'ate Ihe existence of Ihe 

 San Jose scale in the Province, as " iiiidonhted specimens had heeii received at 

 Ottawa for ideiititication." with the statement that ■'they had heen collected In 

 the Okananan ^■aIley." The locality in which the scale had heeii discovei-ed was 

 Kclowna. Iiecanse in the Ki-pori of the Iicpartmenl of .V-ricnll lire for the I'rioince 

 of r.ritisli ('olnniliia for thai year it is stated thai on the trip to liritish Colnmliia 

 hy .Mr. .lami's fletcher. IMC. Kclowna was \isiteil on .Inl.\- 2."itli. when " s)iccial 

 examination was made for traces of Ihe San .losi' scale." l''lclclier was unahle to 

 find any siL;ii of the San Jose scale in any of the orchanl laml cxislim; at thai timi> 

 ll^'.i.'ii .iroiiml Kelowiia. He reported his ohservations in person to the frnit-u'rowers 

 at their annn.il meetiii.tc of that year helil at A,;;assiz, It.C In r.nlletin No. ;!. Dcii.irl- 

 mcnt of .\^'riciiltnre. I'.rilish Colnmhia. in the I'rocccdini_'s of Ihe SecomI .Vnnnal 

 Farmers' Convention on .\nmist 1st .and 'Jml. isii."!. Dr. I'Ictclier's siieedi is (pioted 

 as follows: ".Seme time a.^'o anlheniic specimens of the San Jose scale were sent 

 to me from I'.rilish (.'olninhia . . . willi the stateineiit thai tile insecl was doiii:; 

 harm to .apple-trees. I am pleased lo he able to tell yon . . . thai allhon.^h the 



insect certainly did ociair . . . for the ideiil itic.ai ion was conlir d hy .Mr. I,. (). 



Howard . . . it is safe to say it does not now exist in any ot the orchards aroiinil 

 this orii-'inal localit.w" 



II is inlen■stin^' to note that the scale at ihislime ilM)."ii was only .insl lic.u'innin^' 

 to make ils aiijiearance in Ontario. In I'.ict. with the exception ol .a localil.\- in K(ait 

 Coiiiit.w Ontario.* in which the San .lose scali> w.is oliscr\i'd in Isp:;. Kclnwiia. ]'..('.. 

 has the doiihtfiil honour of Iiein;: Ihe lirst infested localil.\ in Canada. l'roin|it 

 rcnicili.al me.asnres were .aihiscd hy In-. Fletcher on llic lirsl intimation of Ihe mit- 

 hre.ak at Kclowna. with 111.' rcsiill. as .aluoi' staled, thai in Is!!.", no si-n of ihe scale 

 exislcd eilher at Kelow ii.a or .it .any othir point in Ihe I'mvince. 



The nexl year. howi'Mr. isiii;. Iiron^dit foiah ; thcr report of the existence of 



this si-.ilc in I'.rilish Colnml.i.i. Iml on this occasi,,n il was found near Victoria, on 

 Vaie Oliver M.-nnl.v 



.Mr. 1;. .M. r.ilmcr. al the lime I'rovinci.al Inspi^i lor of Fruit I'csts. deser\es Ihe 

 credit for discoveriim the scale in this new locality. Spi'cimens of intcsled wood 



lOvidi'llc.'. Ilr. .1. I'l.l.li.r. ti.tii.-.. 

 - Itciicirl el h.iiiiiiiiuii Dnii. 111,. tout. 



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