p. The San Jose Scale in Japan. 



ly colored on the map ; in some localities the spots are omitted on account 

 of want of space. In the accompanying pages we shall sketch out briefly 

 the present condition of the scale distribution. 



HOKKAIDO. 



The scale does not seem to spread rapidly in the island on account 

 of its climatical conditions, and only in V2 localities it was found by us. 

 The first stock of the island came from America through the Kwaitakushi 

 at Tokyo as already mentioned ; the fruit trees thus introduced were apple, 

 pear, peach, plum, apricot and grape etc., of which apple and cherry are the 

 chief fruit trees at present. 



About 1868 a German had an orchard near Hakodate, where he cultiva- 

 ted apple, pear, cherry, plum, current, gooseberry and grape vine of western 

 varieties along with some of our native ones. 



HONDO. 



1. Awomorl-keii. 



The scale has been found in 5 localities ; in some of the places many 

 hundreds of trees were killed or dug out on account of the scale ; and in fact 

 some growers are removing their orchards and establishing new ones in some 

 remote localities with perfectly inspected stock from other growers. No where 

 else were the apple trees so badly infested with the scale as in Hirosaki, 

 especially at Mr. Kikuchi's orchard. In order to prevent further spreading of 

 the scale, he destroyed many well started trees ; many growers took his advice, 

 removed badly infested trees from the orchards, and burned them. It is 

 difficult to destroy the scale even by fighting it with the best means. 



For the first time the local government obtained 50 foreign fruit 

 trees from Tokyo in the Spring 1875 and distributed them among several 

 individuals in the province for experiment. In the following year many 



