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been received from Eastern Avenue. Highland Terrace, in 

 the woods north of Forest Di\le Cemetery, is infested. As 

 many as sixty caterpillars under one Inirlap were found here 

 (these burlaps are those put on by the employees of the 

 gypsy moth committee in 1899), and several hundred de- 

 stroyed in a very short time. In Section 5 larvte were quite 

 plentiful this summer, from one to twenty-five under each 

 burlap in the central part of the colony. In woodland off 

 Lebanon Street from one to six were found under nearly 

 every burlap. 



Everett. 



Everett is generally infested in nearly every part. The 

 moth has made a great gain in some parts of the city. A 

 very large tree stands on Main Street, which is infested with 

 nests of the moth. One from the ground can count fifty 

 nests on this tree. The branches of this tree reach completely 



across the street. 



Medford. 



Medford is becoming generally infested. There is a tree 

 containing fifteen or more nests close beside the entrance to 

 the Medford livery sta]>le. Nests can be found in nearly any 

 part of Medford woodland. General Lawrence has done good 

 work in destroying the moth on his property ; Mr. Albert 

 F. Sise has also done good work in this direction. Colony 

 9 is infested. The estate of Walter Wright is badly infested. 

 Five handred larvse were counted under and around one bur- 

 lap on this estate, and not over two-thirds of the larva? in the 

 mass were counted, there being at least seven hundred under 

 and around that one burlap. Mr. Wright's man reported 

 that he killed twenty-eight thousand larvte in a space of thirty 

 feet square. The Metropolitan Park Commission had several 

 men at work all summer on and around Pine Hill. At West 

 Medford the Brooks estate is badly infested. Sixty feet of 

 a large and beautiful evergreen hedge on this estate were 

 completely defoliated and killed this season. 



3Ielrose. 

 In Melrose the moth has made a great gain. Wyoming 

 Cemetery and vicinity arc generally infested. Park Street is 



