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ordered that 4,000 milreis (about $2,000) be advauced to Jos6 Watzl to 

 defray expeuses of organizing the Phylloxera Station which the secre- 

 tary of agriculture has ordered established at Fazeuda Graude. The 

 amount is small, but it is a beginning in the right direction, and is the 

 first step which the Brazilian Government has taken regarding the 

 investigation of injurious insects since many years. 



WINTER PROTECTION FOR THE VEDALIA. 



The last report of the California State Board of Horticulture contains 

 an illustration of two glass houses erected by the board for the pur- 

 pose of insuring the hibernation of the Yedalia in "numbers, as during 

 the winter of 1889-90, the wet weather almost exterminated them. 

 The houses are 16 feet in diameter by 18 feet high. Every part is care- 

 fully fitted and ventilation is secured by wire netting. They are octag- 

 onal in shape and so designed that they present as much surface to 

 the sun as possible. They are placed at San Gabriel in the orchard of 

 Col. J. E. Dobbin. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with a sense of personal loss that we record the death of Frazer 

 S. Crawford, of Adelaide, South Australia. He has been a constant 

 correspondent since 1885 and showed deep interest in agricultural mat- 

 ters anti particularly in applied entomology and mycology. He was 

 connected with the surveyor-general's office in Adelaide as a lithograper 

 and had a considerable aptitude for illustrating insects. He had etched 

 a number of plates (principally scale insects) and distributed them 

 among his correspondents. Although more or less of an invalid for a 

 number of years i^ast his energy was surprising and his name has be- 

 come known through his correspondence and his published papers in 

 many parts of the world. For a few years past he conducted a depart- 

 ment of the Garden and Field, a sound agricultural journal published 

 in Adelaide, and his views were always read from month to month with 

 great interest. Americans have good reason to cherish memory of him 

 for the part he took in the introduction of the Australian enemies of 

 Icerya, the results of which have proved such a boon to California 

 fruit-growers. It was chiefly through correspondence with him that we 

 became convinced of the advisability of the mission, and both of our 

 agents, Mr. Koebele and Mr. Webster, on the occasion of their visit to 

 Australia, were received by him with the utmost kindness and hospi- 

 tality, and he seriously inconvenienced himself to make their mission a 

 success. Mr. Crawford showed in his writings that large experience 

 and those qualities of care and caution which are essential in scientific 

 work. His death is a distinct loss to Australian applied science. 



IMPORTED PARASITES OF THE HESSIAN FLY. 



We have just received from Mr. Fred. Enock, of London, a supply 

 of Hessian Fly puparia parasitized by Semiotellus. We hope to accli- 

 matize this parasite in this country, and in order to do so successfully 



