﻿notified. 
  I 
  later 
  learned 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Kiem 
  that 
  this 
  report 
  was 
  based 
  

   on 
  specimens 
  sent 
  by 
  him, 
  with 
  a 
  request 
  for 
  information, 
  to 
  Mee- 
  

   han's 
  "'Gardeners' 
  Monthly." 
  

  

  I 
  immediately 
  wrote 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Kiem 
  for 
  specimens 
  cut 
  from 
  the 
  in- 
  

   jured 
  trees, 
  and 
  September 
  4 
  received 
  from 
  him 
  pieces 
  of 
  twigs 
  com- 
  

   pletely 
  incrusted 
  with 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale. 
  The 
  fact 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  

   of 
  this 
  insect 
  in 
  Illinois 
  being 
  thus 
  established. 
  I 
  sent 
  my 
  most 
  ex- 
  

   perienced 
  entomological 
  assistant, 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  A. 
  Hart, 
  to 
  Quincy 
  with 
  

   instructions 
  to 
  inspect 
  the 
  infested 
  premises 
  thoroughly, 
  and 
  to 
  ex- 
  

   tend 
  his 
  search 
  into 
  all 
  orchards, 
  nurseries 
  and 
  fruit 
  gardens 
  for 
  two 
  

   or 
  three 
  miles 
  around. 
  According 
  to 
  his 
  report, 
  made 
  September 
  9, 
  

   the 
  Quincy 
  attack 
  was 
  limited 
  to 
  about 
  a 
  dozen 
  peach 
  and 
  apple-trees 
  

   received 
  from 
  a 
  New 
  Jersey 
  nurseryman 
  in 
  the 
  si)ring 
  of 
  18U4, 
  and 
  

   set 
  in 
  an 
  isolated 
  orchard 
  of 
  five 
  hundred 
  trees 
  ( 
  peach, 
  apple, 
  pear 
  

   and 
  cherry) 
  some 
  three 
  miles 
  out 
  of 
  town. 
  

  

  INSPECTION 
  OF 
  ILLINOIS 
  OKCHARDS. 
  

  

  Learning 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Kiem 
  that 
  other 
  trees 
  had 
  to 
  his 
  knowledge 
  

   been 
  received 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey 
  by 
  his 
  neighbors 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  

   time 
  as 
  his 
  own, 
  I 
  decided 
  to 
  appeal 
  to 
  the 
  public 
  spirit 
  of 
  these 
  out- 
  

   side 
  nurserymen 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  distributed 
  stock 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  

   their 
  own 
  premises 
  were 
  infested 
  and 
  before 
  this 
  fact 
  had 
  been 
  as- 
  

   certained 
  by 
  them, 
  in 
  the 
  hope 
  of 
  securing 
  from 
  them 
  lists 
  of 
  their 
  

   Illinois 
  customers 
  to 
  whom 
  this 
  suspected 
  stock 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  out. 
  

   By 
  correspondence 
  with 
  Professor 
  J. 
  B. 
  Smith, 
  the 
  Experiment 
  Sta- 
  

   tion 
  Entomologist 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  I 
  secured 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  all 
  nursery- 
  

   men 
  in 
  that 
  state 
  whose 
  premises 
  had 
  at 
  any 
  time 
  been 
  infested 
  

   with 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  and 
  wdio 
  had 
  an 
  outside 
  trade 
  in 
  nursery 
  

   stock. 
  To 
  my 
  great 
  pleasure, 
  these 
  gentlemen 
  were 
  good 
  enough 
  to 
  

   send 
  me 
  lists 
  of 
  purchasers 
  in 
  Illinois 
  to 
  whom 
  it 
  seemed 
  to 
  them 
  

   possible 
  that 
  infested 
  trees 
  or 
  shrubs 
  had 
  at 
  any 
  time 
  l)een 
  sent. 
  

   The 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  Illinois 
  localities 
  given 
  on 
  these 
  lists 
  was 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  nineteen, 
  and 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  receiving 
  stock 
  

   from 
  these 
  suspected 
  localities 
  was 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  forty-six 
  in 
  all. 
  

   These 
  localities 
  were 
  well 
  distributed 
  throughout 
  the 
  State, 
  from 
  

   Waukegan 
  and 
  Scales 
  Mound 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  to 
  Villa 
  Kidge 
  on 
  the 
  

   south, 
  and 
  from 
  Paris 
  and 
  Danville 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  to 
  Moline. 
  Quincy 
  

   and 
  Alton 
  on 
  the 
  west. 
  To 
  all 
  persons 
  who 
  had 
  imported 
  this 
  sus- 
  

   pected 
  stock 
  a 
  letter 
  of 
  warning 
  and 
  advice 
  was 
  sent 
  from 
  my 
  office 
  

   October 
  22, 
  with 
  a 
  request 
  that 
  careful 
  inspection 
  of 
  this 
  material 
  

   should 
  be 
  made, 
  and 
  that 
  specimens 
  should 
  be 
  sent 
  me 
  if 
  anything 
  

   of 
  a 
  suspicious 
  character 
  was 
  found. 
  General 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  facts 
  was 
  

   also 
  published 
  through 
  the 
  agricultural 
  ])ress 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  and 
  

   through 
  the 
  Associated 
  Press. 
  

  

  October 
  20 
  I 
  began 
  to 
  visit, 
  either 
  personally 
  or 
  through 
  com- 
  

   petent 
  assistants, 
  the 
  places 
  on 
  our 
  lists, 
  with 
  the 
  intention 
  of 
  look- 
  

   ing 
  up 
  and 
  inspecting 
  critically 
  every 
  lot 
  of 
  imported 
  stock 
  which 
  

   we 
  had 
  reason 
  to 
  believi^ 
  might 
  possibly 
  harbor 
  the 
  scale. 
  As 
  a 
  re- 
  

   sult 
  of 
  these 
  visits 
  eighteen 
  points 
  in 
  Illinois 
  are 
  now 
  known 
  to 
  be 
  

   infested 
  by 
  the 
  San 
  Jos6 
  scale. 
  At 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  we 
  found 
  three 
  

  

  