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Circulation. — During the last full season, 1 889-' 90, neai'ly all the 

 circuits received from 14 to 16 boxes each ; only one having as low as 

 13 or 13 boxes, and a few having 17. During the present season from 

 the first of October to the first of March, more than half the circuits 

 have had the the exact average number of 12 boxes each, while the rest 

 have varied from 11 to 14 boxes. If no unusual losses occur, and the 

 members exercise a reasonable promptness, we may fairly hope to add, 

 on an average, about six boxes more before July ist, making a total of 

 16 or 18 for the whole season. This gives an average of something 

 more than two a month throughout. 



If members followed the rules with tolerable care, the boxes would 

 very rarely be received at intervals of less than a week or more than 

 two weeks. In those few cases, this season as heretofore, where cir- 

 cuits received no boxes or perhaps only one for several weeks, and 

 then some four or five within less time than that, the trouble has al- 

 ways been needlessly brought, upon those who suffer, by the negligence 

 of their fellow-members. If all had followed the three-day rule, for- 

 warding everything in the same order as received and always three 

 days apart, the lot of those who follow would be a comparatively happy 

 one. Indeed, if all would follow properly every word of the rules, they 

 would be surprised to find how easy and satisfactory it would be, and 

 their neighbors would immediately begin to suspect that they had all 

 become saints. 



It is doubtless true that the work at headquarters is not done as 

 promptly as it ought to be ; and some members may have taken this as 

 an example showing that rigid promptness is not looked for elsewhere. 

 Exactly the opposite is true. When one or two members are obliged 

 to carry more than half the burden for the whole Club, doing far more 

 of the work than all the other 150 together, it is wholly impossible to 

 do it, by any amount of sacrifice, as it ought to be done ; and it can 

 only be done at all by depending upon and receiving the cordial assist- 

 ance of all. Much of the labor, and more of the delay here, has been 

 caused by carelessness elsewhere. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE NOTE-BOOKS. 

 Zoology. 



Long Scale {Mytilaspis gloverii) . — My contribution to the Club, 

 two years ago, was a slide of an insect affecting the orange, — the " Tur- 

 tle-back " scale. The present slide represents another of our pests, the 

 "Long" scale, socalled from the fact that the armor-covering of the in- 

 sect is longer than any of the other scales affecting the orange tree. 

 Many members of the Club have no doubt seen on oranges in the 

 markets dark brown objects scattered on the surface of some of the fruit. 

 These are the armor scale of the insect which accompanies this descrip- 

 tion. 



The long scale is the most common of the coccides we have to deal 

 with in Florida, and if it were not for the fact that they have many natural 

 enemies to help keep them in subjection, they would prove a greater 

 pest than they do. One of these friends to the orange-grower is the 

 well-known " lady-bird " insect, which can be seen in more or less num- 

 bers on every orange tree. 



