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to each of the experiment stations at Audubon Park, Baton Kouge, and 
Calhoun. Inasmuch as we know that Lewiston, Idaho, has long been 
a San Jose scale locality, it seems more than likely that this stock car- 
ried the orignal scales to Louisiana. If our surmise should prose cor- 
rect, the scale will be found to have been rather widely distributed in 
1891 in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Investigation 
fortunately will be rendered easy, as Mr. Frotseher takes an enlightened 
interest in the matter and states that he will gladly allow inspection 
of his sales books. Messrs. Morgan and Weed will probably secure the 
necessary addresses at once and begin the investigation. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Prof. C. H. Fernald, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, sent 
us April 25, 1895, some twigs of plum from the grounds of the Hatch 
Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass. These proved to be. as sup- 
posed, infested with the San Jose scale. The stock had been received 
the previous spring from New Jersey. None of the scales seemed to 
be living, but wishing to determine whether any of the insects could 
survive the winter at Amherst, Professor Fernald transplanted a por- 
tion of the stock to the insectary greenhouse, and early in June numer- 
ous young were swarming all over the trees. All of the affected stock 
was then carefully destroyed. During the early summer of the same 
year the scale was discovered at various points about Boston, namely, 
Cambridge. Bedford, and Roslindale, and also at a point southeast of 
Boston in Plymouth County, near the town of Scituate. All these 
points were seemingly traceable to a local nursery company. The infor- 
mation regarding these points of infestation was obtained by Mr. C. P. 
Lounsbury. an assistant of Professor Fernald's. who made a careful 
examination of the nurseries of the State under Professor Fernald's 
direction. The facts are detailed by Professor Fernald iu the Massa- 
chusetts Crop Eeport for August, 1895, Bulletin 1. The occurrence at 
Roslindale is on plum and pear trees and a rosebush in front of a tene- 
ment house. The pear trees had been on the ground for three years 
and the plum trees two years, and had been obtained, as was ascer- 
tained by Mr. Lounsbury, from a local agent in West Koxbury, who 
claimed to have purchased them from the nursery just referred t«>. 
In April Mr. Lounsbury visited the nursery in question, finding the San 
Jose scale in large numbers on apple trees, and was informed that the 
trees were brought from an older location, where they had been growing 
three or four years. The latter locality was visited and peach, pear, 
and apple trees found badly infested, many of them already killed. No 
stock had been added to the old nursery for three years, indicating the 
occurrence of the scale there for at least that time, and probably much 
longer. The original source of the infested stock could not be learned. 
The occurrence at Scituate is in the apple orchard of Mr. K. B, Cole, 
who informed Professor Fernald that his orchard of 90 trees was 
