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IAnkwood. — Mr. Robert Gulick exhibited twigs infested with the seale 
from his place at Linkwood, Md., at the meeting of the Peninsula Hor- 
ticultural Society January 17, 1895. He informed Mr. Marlatt that his 
stock came from a number of nurseries, including the one in Missouri 
previously alluded to and others m Maryland. 
Charlton Heights. — Mr. J. C. Brelsford found the scale in January, 
1896, on a single plum tree, bought in 1894 from a Baltimore firm. The 
insect had not spread to adjoining trees, and the original tree was dug up 
and brought to the insectory of the Department for experimental use. 
NEW JERSEY. 
From New Jersey the original distribution to most of the Eastern 
localities was made by the two nurseries already referred to. The 
manner of introduction of the scale into these nurseries has already been 
discussed. As would naturally be supposed the points of occurrence 
are much more numerous in New Jersey than in any other Eastern 
State. They have been located by Professor Smith in nearly every 
county in the State, the only immune district being in the northwest- 
ern corner of the State. The number of localities actually ascertained 
reaches upward of 100. In fact, the occurrence of the scale in New 
Jersey orchards is so general that it has not been deemed necessary by 
Professor Smith to put the individual localities on record. 
Professor Smith thinks that he has located most of the points at 
which the insect exists, and has urged upon the owners the supreme 
necessity of stamping it out if they wish to retain their orchards. In 
every case willingness has been expressed to do all in their power to 
destroy the pest, and often the infested stock has been uprooted and 
burned. In other cases thorough spraying has been given the affected 
trees. 
The results so far obtained, however, are far from satisfactory, and 
in letter dated January 13, 1896, Professor Smith reports that in south 
Jersey orchards matters are much worse than they were a year ago. 
NEW YORK. 
The occurrence of the scale in New York was first determined in 
August, 1894. The exact locality was the orchard of Mr. L. L. Mor- 
rell, at Kinderhook, a short distance below Albany, on the Hudson 
Kiver. The scale was there found on apple and pear trees obtained 
from one of the New Jersey nurseries, and the infested stock was 
promptly uprooted and burned. Later in the same year a number of 
points of occurrence were found on Long Island by Messrs. V. A. Sir- 
rine and V. II. Lowe, of the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station. 
The history of the discovery of the scale on Long Island was reported 
in Garden and Forest of November 7, 1894. It was first observed by 
Mr. Sirrine in the market of Jamaica on some Bartlett pears said to 
have been grown on the island, and also on some pears exhibited at 
the Queens County Fair. On tracing the fruit to its source some of 
