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A Society Photograph Collection.— A large number of photo- 

 graphs of our members are being- collected in the Secretary's office 

 for the use of the society. We should be glad if members, without 

 personal solicitation, would send in their photographs and also 

 views of their homes, orchards or of otherobjects of interest around 

 them. Such photographs should be suitably inscribed with the 

 name and age of the person, date when taken, or, if a view,its descrip- 

 tion, etc. Mr. M. W. Cook, of Rochester, sent lately three very fine 

 views of his home and fruit gardens, which are highly prized. Re- 

 ceipt of photographs will be promptly acknowledged, and they 

 will be carefully preserved. 



The SAN Jose Scale Law.— Attention is called specially to the 

 proposed law printed in this number for preventing the introduc- 

 tion of the San Jose scale and also to the comments of Prof. O. Lug- 

 ger on the subject. As referred to in the last number, Mr. J. Cole 

 Doughty, of Lake City, had his attention impressively called to the 

 necessity of action in this direction while in attendance at the an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois Horticultural Society, and at about the 

 same time Prof. Otto Lugger, of our State Experiment Station, was 

 in attendance at a convention of entomologists and others held in 

 Chicago, for the purpose of considering this very subject. Mr. 

 Doughty, with the assistance of other prominent members of our 

 society, prepared a draft of a law on this subject based largely on a 

 similar law in force in the state of Maryland, and Prof. Lugger 

 brought home from the convention one prepared for the same pur- 

 pose by that body. At a meeting of the legislative committee of 

 this society, convened for that purpose, the two bills referred to 

 were considered and one drawn combining as far as possible the 

 good points of both. In this form, after a few minor changes, it was 

 introduced into the senate by Hon. A. J. Greer, of Lake City, 

 and is now before the senate on general orders. This is the law 

 published in this number. 



Prof. Lugger has interested himself very much in this matter and 

 has lately received letters from many prominent horticulturists 

 and entomologists of the country, all emphasizing very strongly 

 the necessity of our state enacting and enforcing some drastic law 

 if we are to escape the ravages of this justly dreaded pest. At the 

 present time he is in Washington attending a convention called by 

 the Ohio State Horticultural Society, reference to which has 

 been already made in the "Secretary's Corner," for the purpose 

 of considering this very question and formulating suitable 

 national and uniform state legislation. The professor represents 

 both our society and the State Experiment Station at this meeting? 

 and we may expect an interesting report of the result of their pro- 

 ceedings. 



The passage of this law is of so much importance to the fruit 

 growing interests of our state, that members of our society and all 

 others interested are urged to correspond with their representatives 

 in the legislature and call their attention specially to it. The law 

 proposed is probably somewhat crude and imperfect, as it would be 

 likely to be in dealing with an entirely new situation in an untried 

 field, but experience will soon show the changes required to make 

 it thoroughly effective in operation. 



