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As regards the plants specia it is stated that * practically all 
deciduous fruit trees are subject" to its attacks; also ** many 
shade trees and ornamental t The pear, peach, „plum, 
pple and cherry are almost equally liable to injury”; also 
currant and gooseberry bushes 
All parts of the plants Denon eventually covered, giving them 
the appearance of a “grayish, very slightly roughened, scurfy 
git ^» 
Various methods are ds ges as remedies and preventives. 
A lime-sulphur wash is said to be used during the dormant 
season as a winter dec ce a Bee wash both as a winter and 
summer wash, chiefly the former ; while a arian emulsion is 
used in the summer PX In addition, or is Mie hydrocyanic 
gas treatment applied to nursery s vA : all cases of recen 
attack AN this is of special interest in this MENT *the affected 
stock should be promptly uprooted RES burned. No measure is 
so sure as this, and the dan nger of spreading is so great that this 
course seems fully warranted.” 
8 precautionary measures the United States Department of 
Agriculture suggest the following :— 
“No orchardist should admit a single young fruit tree or a 
single cutting from a distance into his orchard without first 
carefully examining = n satisfying reais conclusively that 
it does not carry a single = jen of the San Jose scale; 
he should insist ves on a guarantee from tiic nurseryman of 
such freedom. In addition, no fruit should be brought upon 
the premises without — careful inspection." (l.c. p. 66. 
naturally to be expected, all European countries 
receiving vegetable production, such as fruit, &c. from the 
United States have been keenly anxious not to introduce so 
serious a pest as the San Jose scale into their nurseries or 
orchards. 
As far as this country is concerned, according to an extract 
published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of March 19, 1898, 
* Mr. Newstead, an authority on scale insects, is satisfied that the 
insect has not yet established itself in this country, either upon 
fruit trees or cultivated plants of any kind, whether grown in the 
open air or under glass, or upon indigenous plants.” How long 
this inftaunity will last it is difficult to 
In the cmn according to a ea tothe Times, from Berlin, 
dated Febru 3, an order has been issued by the German 
m 
all fresh fruit from America. en the same is discovered to 
es infected with the San Jose scale it is at once refused. The 
mportation of windfalls packing material and plants is entirely 
forbidden 
La Semaine Horticole tor May 7, states, however, that i" 
des miren EMG est prohibée en Allemagne, moins 
temporair 
A seorang d ‘the n Horticole for May 16, * Le gouverne- 
ment hollandais a interdit pour quatre mois l'entrée des 
arbres et arbustes, fraita: frais ou secs, de provénance ARES 
: n cóté, le — fodenit suisse vient de prononce 
ja móme iatentiction. f 
