FOOD PLAXTS OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 



He was the son of a farmer in North- 

 ampton, England, and brought up to 

 admire and love the beauties of Nature : 

 it was not very surprising therefore that, 

 in addition to his business as merchant 

 tailor, in the city of London, Ontario, 

 he was of late years also engaged in the 

 cultivation of a fruit farm, just outside 

 the city. He had been in Canada since 

 about 1S55, had built up in Lon- 

 don a fine business, and was personally 

 held in the highest esteem by all who 

 knew him. 



Nearly twenty years ago he was elected 

 Director of our Association for his dis- 

 trict, and continued to serve for many 

 years ; and only for his modesty in per- 

 sistently refusing to be a candidate, he 

 would have been elected President. He 

 was a constituent member of the Lon- 

 don branch of the Entomological Socie- 

 ty, of which he has been Vice-President 

 and President. 



We are glad to give place to the ac- 

 companying fine photogravure of such 

 a faithful friend of our Association. 



FOOD PLANTS OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE (Aspidio- 



Tus rERNiciosis) IN OHIO. EXCLUSIVE OF 



FRUIT TREES. 



^HE following list includes forest 

 and ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, upon which the San 

 Jose scale has been found breed- 

 ing in Ohio. Nearly all of these have 

 been found in sufficient numbers to 

 indicate that the insect might thrive 

 on any of them. The Cotoneaster 

 was sent for inspection, it having been 

 recently received from a Long Island 

 nursery firm, and when received was 

 literally covered with the scale : 



Grape, Vitis labt^isca. 

 Linden, Tilia Americana. 

 European Linden, Tilia Europiva. 

 Sumac, Rhus glabra. 

 Japan Quince, Pyrin japonica. 

 Cotoneaster, C. frigidum. 

 Flowering Peach, Priiniis, sp. 

 Flowering Cherry, Pruiius, sp. 

 American Elm, Ulmiis Americana. 

 Black Walnut, Juglans nigra. 

 Willow (imported), Salix verminalis. 



Cut-leafed Birch, Betiila, sp. 

 Lombardy Popular, Populus dilatata. 

 Carolina Poplar, P. monilifera. 

 Golden-leaf Popular, P. Van Geerti. 

 Catalpa, C. speciosa. 

 Chestnut, Castanea sativa. 

 Osage Orange, Madura aurantiaca. 

 Snowball, Viburnum opulus. 



To these must be added the several 

 varieties of roses, currants, gooseberries 

 and raspberries. The Early Richmond 

 cherry I believe to be exempt from 

 attack, as I have found trees whose 

 branches interlocked with those of a 

 pear that had been killed by the scale, 

 yet the cherry was uninfested : and in 

 two cases that came under my observa- 

 tion, where this variety of cherry had 

 been giafted upon mahaleb stock, and 

 shoots had sprung up from below the 

 graft, the shoots were badly infested 

 with scale, while none at all could be 

 found on the trees themselves. — Cana- 

 dian Entomologist. 



