22 THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
January 23, 1895, Mr. M. V. Slingerland, of Cornell University, 
informed us that be had just received an infested pear branch from 
North Madison, Ind., a locality a little east of the one referred to. The 
infested stock in this case was obtained from a New Jersey nurseryman 
in the fall of 1893. 
LOUISIANA. 
Mr. H. E. Weed has transmitted to us some twigs of Jefferson pear 
obtained from the Louisiana station at New Orleans (Audubon Park) 
April 3, 1895, which proved to be badly infested with the San Jose 
scale. A subsequent letter from Mr. Weed, inclosing one from Prof. 
W. 0. Stubbs, director of the Louisiana station, and also letters from 
Mr. H. A. Morgan, entomologist of the station, indicated that the appear- 
ance of the scale in Louisiana had probably no connection with most of 
the other Eastern occurrences. The infested pears were of a variety 
which originated in New Orleans and were secured from a New Orleans 
nurseryman. They were set out in March, 1891. It was reported that 
all of the attacked trees were burned and that no further trouble was 
anticipated. 
Our written comment upon this statement at the time reads : "This is 
very doubtful, however, as so complete and long-continued a case could 
hardly have failed to result in considerable spread." The justification 
of this comment was found by Mr. Howard on December lb' when he 
visited the grounds of the agricultural experiment station at Audubon 
Park, New Orleans, in company with Professor Stubbs. It was found 
that while the Jefferson pears mentioned had been removed, nearly all 
the fruit trees in the vicinity bore a greater or smaller number of scales. 
One or more trees of Sand pear, Bartlett, Idaho, Duchesse, and Apricot 
(Bonne Bouche), a Japanese plum (Hotankia) and a Marianna plum, 
were affected. Professor Stubbs was in doubt as to the original 
source of the trouble, but was inclined to think that the scales may 
have come from certain pear trees originally sent by a New Jersey firm 
to the Cotton Exposition of 1884, which were subsequently transplanted 
from their original position near the Horticultural Building to a little 
orchard at the side of Professor Stubbs's house, in the immediate vicin- 
ity of the Jefferson pears, which succumbed in 1895. Our information 
about the original introduction of the scale into the New Jersey nurser- 
ies, however, indicates that this did not take place until several years 
after the Cotton Exposition, and another source was therefore sought. 
It was found that in 1891 Mr. E. M. Hudson, a prominent lawyer of 
New Orleans, with well- developed horticultural tastes and the owner 
of a beautiful place near Mobile, secured from a nursery company near 
Lewiston, Idaho, a large number of cuttings of the Idaho pear. There 
were more of these cuttings than Mr. Hudson needed for his own use, 
and he therefore turned the others over to Mr. Gr. Frotscher, a seed and 
fruit-tree dealer of 521 Dumaine street, New Orleans, to sell on com- 
mission. He also requested Mr. Frotscher to present two of the trees 
