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its efforts in this direction, and deserves great credit for the manner 
in which it undertook the work; the other was for a time dilatory and 
seemingly indifferent, but was forced by the necessities of its business 
and by public opinion to adopt similar remedial measures. 
The investigation of the New Jersey nurseries and of the spread of 
the scale in that State was undertaken by Prof. John B. Smith, the ento- 
mologist of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at New 
Brunswick, as soon as the danger was brought to his attention by this 
Department. Early in June we sent Professor Smith 1,500 copies of 
our warning circular. These he distributed throughout New Jersey to 
persons to whom suspected stock had been sent, the names and addresses 
having been willingly furnished by one the companies but refused by 
the other. The distribution of this circular, with an accompanying per- 
sonal letter, in addition to a good deal of personal search on Professor 
Smith's part, resulted in the discovery of infested orchards in almost 
every county in the State. The nurseries named have a very wide 
market for their stock, and, as will be shown later, were the original 
sources of infestation of most of the points located in the East. 
In addition, however, to the two prominent nurseries mentioned ? 
there are several smaller nurseries in the East in which the scale has 
been found. Some of these are known to have been recently infested, 
and in others the infestation is of long standing and more widespread. 
Of the latter character, apparently, are the three nurseries located on 
Long Island. 1 These nurseries appear to have received their original 
scales from New Jersey. In one instance the proprietors made vigorous 
efforts to exterminate the scale, but in the others they have been negli- 
gent and indifferent in the matter, as we learn from Mr. F. A. Sirrine, 
one of the entomologists of the New York State Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Geneva. In some six other nurseries on Long Island 
the scale could not be found. 
Prof. P. H. Eolfs stated in his bulletin on the scale that an infested 
nursery exists in Florida, but has not divulged its location. 
In Georgia there seem to be two nurseries which have contained or 
have distributed iufested stock. Of these, one is near Tifton, Ga., and 
is said to have been infected from material received from a Maryland 
nursery company. The other is near Waycross, and is the source of 
infestation in one of the Maryland orcbards. 
There are probably one or more infested nurseries in Louisiana, 
Mississippi, and Alabama, which introduced the scale originally upon 
Idaho pears from Lewiston, Idaho. 
In Massachusetts there are infested nurseries at Cambridge and 
Bedford. The origin in this case is obscure. 2 
A nursery in northeastern Missouri may be infested, since the original 
transmission East of the infested Japanese plum was through the agency 
1 See Lintner, Bull. N. Y. State Mus., Vol. Ill, pp. 281-285. 
2 See Fernald, Mass. Crop Rept., August, 1895, p. 25. 
