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an every -day appreciation that this is the most beautiful world 

 we know anything about and that we are placed in this garden 

 to till it and to use to the best of our ability all the attributes 

 of character with which we are endowed, and that we shall be 

 held responsible for every delinquency in dealing with the 

 elements that are placed in our hands; and that our sins of 

 omission as well as commission will be laid up against us as 

 truly in our treatment of the soil as in our treatment of each 

 other. We must learn to be honest through and through 

 and never to forget that this applies as truly to the soil as to 

 our brother men or our Creator; and that there is a religion in 

 horticulture that should go with us every day and that our 

 calling is holy in just so far as we treat it as the calling to 

 which God has called us; that the character which we develop 

 in connection with the work we have chosen to do in this world 

 will be moulded very largely by the view we take of the world 

 in which God has located us, and the purpose we put into our 

 dealings with the elements that are placed in our hands to com- 

 bine into beautiful and successful creations for the benefit of 

 man and the glory of man's Creator. 



A brief recess was then taken, during which a very large 

 number of those present reported at the secretary's desk to 

 renew their membership in the Society. 



The President: "We will now listen to an illustrated 

 lecture upon 'The San Jose Scale and Latest Methods of 

 Treatment,' by Prof. W. G. Johnson, former state entomologist 

 of Maryland and now associate editor of the 'American 

 Agriculturist.' " 



THE SAN JOSE SCALE AND THE LATEST METHODS 

 OF TREATMENT 



PROF. W. G. JOHNSON, NEW YORK 



In taking up this question with you I feel somewhat like an 

 old darky 1 met in Georgia last summer. I was curious to 

 know whether or not they had any San Jose scale down there. 

 I did not ask my host if he had the scale on his trees, but I 

 went out and saw an old darkv in the orchard. I said to him: 



