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which he kept in his cabin aud the other he pUiced in the ice box. The 

 Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture of California also, by ar- 

 rangement, forwarded one box of Yedalia and another box of food by 

 express to Kew York, meeting iVIr. Louw at that point. On December 

 23, 1891, Mr. Louw left New York, feeding both boxes of lady birds from 

 time to time, and on the 29th of January, 1892, he handed them over 

 to the Secretary of the Agricultural Department of the Cape Colony 

 in perfect condition. In the same number of the same journal the edi- 

 torial statement is made that almost all of the insects in the box which 

 ■was placed in the cool chamber survived the journey as well as the 

 others, which were constantly tended. The insects were disposed as 

 follows: A small number were placed in the open air on an infested 

 tree in the Cape Town Botanic Gardens, and the larger portion was di- 

 vided into two i)arts, one of which was placed on an infested orange 

 tree at Stellenbosch and kept under wire, while the other was taken to 

 an estate called " Fernwood," owned by a Mr. Eudd, where a glass 

 house similar to that used in California has been erected around an 

 orange tree. A similar glass house is already stocked with the Rodolia 

 mentioned elsewhere in this number. If this experiment should prove 

 a success, which it now bids fair to do, we Avill have repaid to one Eng- 

 lish colony the favor which another one has done us. 



Since tliis note was prepared the Secretary of Agriculture has re- 

 ceived from Mr. Louw a personal letter acknowledging his indebtedness 

 to this Department, and particularly to the Entomologist, for assistance 

 rendered in the importation of this insect. 



A later number of the Agricultural Journal (10th March) announces 

 the receipt of a sending of Yedalia from Mr. Koebele, whom we had in- 

 structed to attempt to send a consignment from Australia. According 

 to the published note, four specimens only survived the journey, but 

 it is possible that even this small number may do some good if prop- 

 erly cared for. 



I.EGI8LATI0N AGAINST INSECTS IN CALIFORNIA. 



The California Fruit 6rroic<?>* of January 9, 1892, publishes an account 

 of a recent meeting of the San Diego County Horticultural Association, 

 an organization comprising twenty-eight horticultural societies. " The 

 Red Spider," " Silk Culture," and "Fig Caprification " were among the 

 subjects discussed. 



Resolutions requesting the board of supervisors of the county to take 

 action for the protection of its citizens in the use of hydrocyanic acid 

 gas for fumigation of fruit trees infested with scale-insects and other 

 pernicious pests were adopted, as follows: 



Whereas th<' process of spraying fruit trees for the destrnetiou of scale and 

 other noxious insects with the various compounds and washes is not a success, the 

 result seldom being adequate to the labor and money expended; and 



Whereas certain scale-insects have been l)roug]jt into this county which have thus 

 far resisted the best efforts made to eradicate them ; and 



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