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Frosted Seale 
EBulecanium pruinosum Cog. 
General Appearance 
This is one of the largest unarmored 
scales, often one-half inch in length and 
three-fourths inch wide. The full grown 
scales are nearly hemispherical in shape, 
while the young and half-grown forms 
are very flat. (Fig. 1, p. 551.) The surface 
is covered with white frost-like wax, 
which readily distinguishes it from all 
other common species. 
Life History 
Fegs are white to yellowish in color and 
are deposited in the early summer 
months. The species is not as prolific as 
many of the others of this genus, and be- 
cause of parasites scarcely does any dam- 
age. 
Distribution 
Throughout the central and southern 
parts of California. 
Food Plants 
Apricot, prune, peach, plum, cherry, 
pear, apple, walnut, laurel, ash, birch, 
sycamore, cork-elm, grape, rose, orange, 
loganberry and hawthorn. The branches 
are usually the parts attacked. 
Control 
Same as for European fruit scale (Le- 
canium corni). See Apple. 
Natural Enemies 
Comys fusca and at least two other in- 
ternal parasites were bred from this 
species, and keep it in complete subjec- 
tion. 
H. O. Essie 
Meaty Puum Lovse. See under Plum. 
PeacH Borer, See under Peach. 
See under Pear. 
PLuxr CURCULIO. 
Apple. 
SHot Hore Borer. See under Cherry. 
TERMITE. See Common Termite, this 
section. 
WHITE PeacH ScaLe. See under Peach. 
Pear THRIPS. 
See Cureulio under 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Arkansas 
Arkansas has a good soil, a humid eli. 
mate, and many natural sources of wealth. 
It is adapted to the growing of nearly al 
the varieties of fruits generally grown in 
the temperate climates, such as apples, 
peaches, pears, strawberries, giapes and 
small fruits, all of which, with proper 
care, bring profitable returns. 
The mean elevation is 650 feet. The 
eastern part, for 30 to 100 miles west of 
the Mississippi river, is generally low and 
subject to inundations fiom numerous 
overflowing bayous, lakes and swamps, 
caused by the overflow of the Mississippi 
river. In this region there are a few high 
places, rising generally toward the table 
land and the high hills of the west. In 
the northwest part are the Ozark and 
Boston mountains, which, while they do 
not reach the height of mountains, yet are 
rugged, picturesque and, as compared with 
the country about them, are of sufficient 
height to justify the name. These hills 
or mountains continue westward into 
Oklahoma and northward into Missouri 
Here Arkansas grows its best apples, 
peaches and strawberries, and these fruits 
have made the state famous. Nature has 
done much for Arkansas; but the fruit 
growers are not as a rule making the most 
of their natural advantages; for they in- 
cline to plant the trees and, without much 
care or the application of modern meth- 
ods, permit Nature to do the rest. 
The state is divided, geologically, 
into two parts by a line drawn from Tex- 
arkana in the southwest corner, to Miller 
county, running northeasterly through 
Little Rock, to Pawhatan in Lawrence 
county in the northeast The northwest- 
ern division is hilly and underlaid with 
heavy paleozoic rocks, and the southeast 
corner with cretaceous rocks. The south- 
eastern part is mostly alluvial soil, some 
of it requiring drainage, and is very fer- 
tile, therefore adapted to the growing of 
vegetables, strawberries and other small 
fruits; but cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, 
hay, potatoes and tobacco are the main 
crops. For further information see Ozarks. 
GRANVILLE LOWTHER 
