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them they have been unwilling to communicate the fact. It is 

 stated that the stock that was infested was not grown by them, but 

 was received from other nurseries. It would be of material service 

 in the efforts that are being made for the extermination of the scale 

 in the East if the localities of these "other nurseries" could be 

 learned, but for some unknown reason it is being withheld. This 

 unfortunate reticence is reflecting on all the other nurseries of the 

 State of New York, for it seems to be implied that from some one 

 or more of them the Long Island infested stock was originally 

 received. It is conceded that its source was not the New Jersey 

 nurseries.* The Geneva nurseries have been inspected by Mr. Lowe, 

 with the result, it is inferred, that the scale was not found therein. 

 The Rochester nurseries have been strongly suspected. Mr. W. 0. 

 Barry, when consulted, believed them to be entirely free from its 

 presence, and this belief was subsequently carried to approximate 

 certainty by examinations made by Mr. Sirrine, from which it 

 resulted that the reported San Jose scale at Rochester, when exam- 

 ined at Washington, was found to be Aspidiotus ancylus — a closely 

 resembling, but comparatively harmless species. 



Condition of the Long Island Nurseries 



It would be of interest if the exact condition of the Long Island 

 infestation could be given in this Bulletin. I can state, however, 

 from information received from Mr. Sirrine, under date of March 

 22d, that he had visited the following nurseries on Long Island : — 

 of Fred Boulon, Sea Cliff; Keene & Foulk, Flushing; Parsons & 

 Sons, Flushing ; Isaac Hicks & Sons, Westbury Station ; R. P. 

 Jeffery & Sons, Smithville South ; P. H. Foster, Babylon ; W. C. 

 Wilson, Astoria; Gabriel Marc & Co., Woodside; and the Long 

 Island Nursery Company, Brentwood. 



The last six of the nine above-named nurseries were found to be 

 free from the scale. In the worse infested of the three, — as soon 

 as the attention of the proprietors was called to the destructive 

 enemy that they were harboring, a large number of trees were 

 taken up and burned. The remainder were sprayed, according to 



*It has since been learned that one of the Long Island nurseries has been 

 receiving stock nearly every year since 1888 from one or the other of the New 

 Jersey nurseries. 



