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which he kept in his cabin and the other he placed in the ice box. The 
Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture of California also, by ar- 
rangement, forwarded one box of Vedalia and another box of food by 
express to New York, meeting Mr. Louw at that point. On December 
23, 1891, Mr. Louw left New York, feeding both boxes of ladybirds from 
time to time, and on the 29th of January, 1892, he handed them over 
to the Secretary of the Agricultural Department of the Cape Colony 
in perfect condition. In the same number of the same journal the edi- 
torial statement is made that almost all of the insects in the box which 
was placed in the cool chamber survived the journey as well as the 
others, which were constantly tended. The insects were disposed as 
follows: A small number were placed in the open air on an infested 
tree in the Cape Town Botanic Gardens, and the larger portion was di- 
vided into two parts, one of which was placed on an infested orange 
tree at Stellenbosch and kept under wire, while the other was taken to 
an estate called “‘ Fernwood,” owned by a Mr. Rudd, where a glass 
house similar to that used in California has been erected around an 
orange tree. A similar glass house is already stocked with the Rodolia 
mentioned elsewhere in this number. If this experiment should prove 
a success, which it now bids fair to do, we will have repaid to one Eng- 
lish colony the favor which another one has done us. 
Since this note was prepared the Secretary of Agriculture has re- 
ceived from Mr. Louw a personal letter acknowledging his indebtedness 
to this Department, and particularly to the Entomologist, for assistance 
rendered in the importation of this insect. 
A later number ot the Agricultural Journal (10th March) announces 
the receipt of a sending of Vedalia from Mr. Koebele, whom we had in- 
structed to attempt to send a consignment from Australia. According 
to the published note, four specimens only survived the journey, but 
it is possible that even this small number may do some good if prop- 
erly cared for. 
LEGISLATION AGAINST INSECTS IN CALIFORNIA. 
The California Fruit Grower of January 9, 1892, publishes an account 
of a recent meeting of the San Diego County Horticultural Association, 
an organization comprising twenty-eight horticultural societies. ‘‘The 
Red Spider,” “ Silk Culture,” and “Fig Caprification” were among the 
subjects discussed. 
Resolutions requesting the board of supervisors of the county to take 
action for the protection of its citizens in the use of hydrocyanie acid 
gas for fumigation of fruit trees infested with scale-insects and other 
pernicious pests were adopted, as follows: | 
Whereas the process of spraying fruit trees for the destruction of scale and 
other noxious insects with the various compounds and washes is not a success, the 
result seldom being adequate to the labor and money expended; and 
Whereas certain scale-insects have been broughtintothis county which have thus 
far resisted the best efforts made to eradicate them; and 
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