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no doubt, yet very effectually, an erroneous idea of the condition of 

 affairs with us. Compared with the rest of the United States, New 

 Jersey shows only as a very little odd corner. Usually a rather prom- 

 inent, easily seen black spot or blotch is used to represent a scale 

 location, half a dozen of which will go very comfortably into Ohio or 

 Illinois; but when you come to put ten or a dozen of them into New 

 Jersey there is nothing left of the State. This gives us a very ugly 

 showing, yet when the infestation is actually marked in some propor- 

 tion to the size of our State the situation is not quite so bad. 



It is for this reason that I call your attention to the accompanying 

 map. 1 You will see that in a general way there are two, possibly three, 

 scale districts. One of them, and much the larger, extends along the 

 Delaware from a little south of Kinkora almost to Oamden. The stretch 

 is perhaps 25 miles, and every township in this stretch may be said to 

 be scaly. The points from which this region became infested are 

 Parry and Mount Holly, and therefore there is a greater circle around 

 both of those places than there is in any other direction. This stretch 

 is the most dangerous, because of the number of villages with gardens 

 which it contains, and the consequent number of persons to be dealt 

 with. 



The second district is along the Monmouth shore, and has for its cen- 

 ter of distribution Little Silver. Nearly all the growers in that district 

 purchased their trees from the Lovett Company, which was the largest 

 nursery in that vicinity, and therefore we have here another pretty gen- 

 erally infested territory. I have marked the points actually known 

 here, but there are probably more in the same general locality. There 

 is, however, more clear than infested fruit land in each case. It is in 

 the Delaware River territory that the scale has escaped into woodland. 



These are the only real centers that exist in New Jersey. In most of 

 the other points only one or two isolated orchards are known to exist, 

 and in some cases less than half a dozen trees. The possible third 

 district is in Atlantic Comity, where from Egg Harbor City to Pomona 

 there are more infested orchards than at any one other point, save the 

 two previously limited. You will see that there is a point in Cumber- 

 land County, at Vineland, and another at Bridgeton ; but so far as I 

 am aware there is no extension from the original point of infestation in 

 either case. In Vineland the infested trees were in a city garden, and 

 I believe that they have been taken out. Near Salem, in Salem County, 

 there is an orchard of about 150 small trees infested; at Shiloh three 

 infested trees were taken out and destroyed; at Tuckahoe a few south- 

 ern plums were killed, and at Glassboro a lot of New York Duchess 

 trees are infested. Aside from that, the entire southern region in New 

 Jersey bordering on Delaware River and Bay is uninfested. I found 

 some scaly trees at Hammonton, and on the faith of a report have marked 



1 Large map of New Jersey, showing scale-infested districts, exhibited in connec- 

 tion with paper. 



