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The Two Infested New Jersey Nurseries 



The interest felt among the fruit-growers of New York in the 

 New Jersey nurseries, from which large purchases have been made 

 each year, has been already mentioned, and will warrant a more 

 particular reference to their present condition. Quite a satisfactory 

 account of one, and an encouraging account of the other, can be 

 given, based on letters from Dr. Smith, from correspondence with 

 the proprietors of the nurseries at the suggestion of Dr. Smith, and 

 from statements made in a recent number of the Rural New Yorker 

 (of March 9th). The article in the R. N. Y., written by a gentle- 

 man connected with that journal, after a visit to Little Silver, N. J., 

 to examine into charges that had been "publicly made that the 

 Lovett Company have done practically nothing to exterminate the 

 scale," publishes the names of " the two nurseries as those of "Wrn. 

 Parry and The Lovett Company." There can, therefore, be no 

 impropriety in the mention of their names in this Bulletin. 



The Wm. Parry Nurseries. — The nurseries of Wm. Parry, are 

 gladly mentioned, for the same reason given for making public the 

 name of the nursery of Keene & Foulk, of Long Island. Unquali- 

 fied praise is due Mr. Parry for his strenuous efforts for the exter- 

 mination of the scale in the widely-known and far-famed " Pomona 

 Nurseries," at Parry, and the aid so freely extended, in the endeavors 

 being made, for its extermination wherever his extended sales may 

 have borne it.* Promptly upon receiving a request for a list of 

 New York sales which may have distributed the scale throughout 

 the State, the desired list, embracing several hundreds of names, 

 scattered through nearly every county, was sent to me, without any 

 suggestion of compensation for the labor which it necessitated. 



The expression of the confidence with which it is believed, orders 

 could be sent at the present time to the Bloodgood Nursery, would 

 apply in, at least, equal force to the Pomona Nurseries, where opera- 

 tions against the scale have been conducted largely under the direc- 

 tion and supervision of the New Jersey State Entomologist, Dr. 

 J. B. Smith. 



The Lovett Company Nurseries. — Of the condition at the 

 Lovett Company Nurseries, the following is reported in the Rural 



* We are indebted to Mr. Parry for the detection of the scale at Kinderhook, 

 N. Y., in the summer of 1894, as noticed on page 279. 



