10 The Saa Jose Scale iu Japan. 



The Mita nursery, established by Mr. Takenaka some 20 years ago, 

 deals with both foreign and inland varieties of frait trees and other plants, 

 the foreign seeds and stock being chiefly imported from California, New York 

 and Philadelphia, along with a good part of stock raised in Angio. In the 

 Imperial vegetable garden, Shinjiku the scale is sometimes met with, but 

 particular attention is paid to destroy it. Besides the city the writer found 

 the scale in four localities. 



12. Kanagawa-hen. 



In this province the writer found the scale in Yokohama and Kawasaki. 

 The largest nursery of Yokohama city is the Yokohama nursery company, 

 exporting flowering plants, ornamental trees, shrubs and bulbs of all kinds, 

 which are mainly collected from other nurseries in the country ; among a 

 large number of plum, cherry and a flowering quince (Pinus Spectabilis 

 Ait.) etc., some were infested by the scale, which was destroyed at once ; a 

 pear tree, in a pot from Angio about 6 years, old, was also attacked by the 

 pest. The writer took the tree as a specimen. Other numberless trees and 

 shrubs of both home and foreign kinds were carefully examined, but the 

 scale could not be found. In such a nursery much vigorous measures are 

 taken to destroy the pest, and not to export the infested plants. 



Kawasaki is a well known place for Japanese pears ; it is situated 

 between Tokyo and Yokohama and close to the rail road, so that we can see 

 the pear orchard from the windows of the cars. Besides pears there are 

 some peaches, cherries and apple trees of rather recent introduction from 

 Angio. Near Kawasaki city there is an orchard pertaining to the Agricul- 

 tural college, Tokyo university, where the writer has found the scale on 

 pear trees and young apple trees ; and here under peculiar natural conditions 

 and under the rational care of the men employed, the scale does not spread 

 to such an extent as to do harm to the orchard trees. 



13 ShizuoTia-lien. 



The scale has been found in two localities, Shizuoka city and Okitsu, 

 the former obtaining the stock from Awomori-ken 1898. At Okitsu the 



