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matter and the iiKlirect l)eariiio- of tlie results on the maiiaffement of 

 these two scales, which also affect citrus trees in Florida, justitied my re- 

 (juest for leave of absence for this purpose. Very thorough fumigation 

 was being carried on there by an expert, Mr. E. T. Mullard, from Los 

 Angeles, as the washes usually effdctive with us, seemed less so there. 

 The condition of things was most interesting and exceptional, and I felt 

 that a study of it might prove valuable, nut only to the ^iontserrat peo- 

 ple,, but to our own. 



It was during this absence from the Department that specimens of the 

 San Jose Scale were brought by Mi'. E. Dows to :\Ir. L (). Howard, my Assis- 

 tant-in-charge, from liiverside, Charles county, Maryltind. He at once had 

 the mattei- investigated. Some twenty acres are planted to an orchard which 

 contains some 2000 peach trees, having some 250 apple trees mixed with 

 them. The introduction could be traced to the planting in the Spring of 

 1888, from stock obtained from the old established and well-known nur- 

 series of John Iv. Parry, at Parry, N. J. Many of the older trees 

 Mere found to be dead, and most of the others l)adly atfected. Adjacent 

 orchards within a radius of two miles, the stock of which had been ob- 

 tained from other nurseries, were found to be quite free from the scale. 



Later in ]\Iarch further s})ecimens were received at the Department 

 from De Funiak Springs, Fla. Here the insect, as subsequent evidence 

 showed, was found not only upon peach and pear, but also upon pecan 

 and persimmon. Mr. Howard, as Acting Entomologist, now deemed the 

 matter of sufficient importance to issue a circular of warning. This gave 

 a summary of the information at hand with certain figures that I had or- 

 dered prepared for an intended article in /nsc^f Life. The circular was 

 widely distributed both directly to Eastern fruit growers and through the 

 newspapers, and, as a result, a number of new localities of infection were 

 discovered, and among them Neavitt, Talbot county, Md. The infested 

 orchard is located on one of the inlets of the Chesapeake Bay and con- 

 tains about fourteen acres of peach trees, and all of the trees having 

 been badly att'ected. So far as investigation could determine, both by 

 Mr. Coquillett and ]\Ir. Howard, the first trees planted in this orchard 

 were received from the well-known nursery of my old friends, the Stark 

 Brothers, of Louisiana, Mo. 



Later, Mr. Marlatt discovered another infested locality in Maryland, 

 on the place of Capt. R. S. Emory, at Chestertown, in Kent county, and 

 the original trees were here also traced to the New Jersey nursery afore- 

 mentioned. 



