298 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



records of an apple orchard at Scituate, Mass., planted in 

 1892 with infested trees two or three years old, of which 



Fig. 1, Pear infested with San Jose scale (Aspidtolus perniciosua), and enlarged female ; 

 infested twig, and enlarged males. From Howard, Year Book, U. 8. Department of 

 Agriculture, 1894. 



about ninety per cent although very badly affected, were 

 alive in 1897, at which time remedial measures were applied. 



