HON. JOHN X. MERRIMAN, 



Chairman of Horticultural Board. 



SIR, 



In compliance with the request of the Horticultural Board, I 

 herewith submit a report dealing with the operations of the Board's 

 fumigation outfit, and giving detailed information in regard to this 

 most effectual remedy for the Red Scale and other scale insects 

 affecting citrus trees. 



Respectfully submitted, 



CHAS. P. LOUNSBURY, 



Government Entomologist. 



Cape Town, 



June, 1897. 



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