20 THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
from other fruit-growing communities, this particular section being 
shut in on all sides by an almost unbroken pine forest extending for a 
distance of 50 to 100 miles, so that the chance of dissemination, now 
that the presence of the insect is known, is thus considerably limited, 
and it becomes all the more a matter of urgent necessity to extermi- 
nate it where it now occurs. The very active efforts which have been 
and are still being made will, it is hoped, accomplish this result. 
Under date of November 19, 1895, Professor Eolfs informs us that 
he knows of an additional occurrence of the San Jose scale in Florida. 
This is below the twenty-ninth degree, or in the Peento belt, and proves 
to be the case at Orlando, which was reported to us by W. E. Hudson 
late in November, 1S95. Mr. Hudson writes, under date of December 6, 
that the scale occurred on four trees only, two of peach and two of 
pear, all of which have been burned. We also learn from Mr. Rolfs 
that the diseased stock in this instance was obtained from Mr. James 
Mott, a local tree dealer at Orlando, who obtains his stock from various 
sources. The trees go out under his name, however, so that the nurs- 
erymen from whom the diseased trees were obtained are unknown. It 
seems that he obtained stock from Milford, Del. ; Waycross, Ga., and 
from a Florida nuisery, as well as from other places. A quantity of 
the material which the dealer in question had on hand was found to be 
also infested, and all of it was brought together on a brush heap and 
burned. Mr. Rolfs says also that he has visited the Florida nursery 
referred to above and made a careful inspection of the premises, and 
thinks that this nursery has never been infested. 
GEORGIA. 
The first point of infestation located in Georgia was in a large orchard 
in the extreme southern part of the State, as reported by the owner, 
Mr. L. A. Snow, of Mclntyre, who submitted a portion of an infested 
peach limb for inspection in November, 1894. The stock, he said, was 
from a Maryland nursery. Under date of December 8, 1894, he reported 
that the scale was also introduced on his premises at Tifton on plum 
trees secured of the same nursery company in December, 1891. The 
infested trees were some fifty each of Chabot and Ogon plums. He 
promised to take active measures to destroy the scale and was evidently 
most anxious to stamp it out. The premises at Tifton were examined 
by Mr. Coquillett, April 25, 1895, but no scales were found nor any trace 
of previous infestation, the plum orchard being particularly examined. 
The fact, however, that the scale is well established about Tifton, 
Ga., is conclusively shown by considerable correspondence with Mr. A. 
F. Hoffman, of Tifton, who first reported the appearance of the scale 
in his orchard in March, 1895, and informed us at the same time that he 
had destroyed all the trees on which he saw it. His orchard covers about 
60 acres. Some of his stock was obtained from New Jersey and some 
also from Huntsville, Ala., but most of his trees are home grown. The 
scale had not spread very much from the point of infestation and when 
