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found was crude petroleum. I have in many cases 
sprayed this without diluting with no injurious ef- 
fects whatever to tree growth and completely destroy- 
ing the scale. In wild locations not likely to receive 
attention from the spraying machine I believe the 
coccinillidae lady bug will do much toward destroy- 
ing the scale.” 
W. S. Egerton, Supt. of Parks, Albany, N. Y., has 
not met it except in one or two isolated cases of nur- 
sery stock, where the specimens were promptly burn- 
ed. He also recommends whale oil soap, mechanical 
petroleum emulsion, and hydrocyanic acid gas, the 
latter being preferred. He finds the following plants 
subject to the scale: The Acacia, apple, peach, pear, 
plum, cherry (sweet), apricot, almond (flowering), 
cherry (flowering. Rocky Mountain dwarf, andjapan), 
Cotoneaster, Crataegus, currants (red, white and flow- 
ering), Elm (English), gooseberry, Japan quince, 
mountain ash, peach (flowering), prunes (flowering 
and Pissardii), Osage-Orange, Snowberry and wil- 
low (many species), Akebia, Nectarine. 
Robert Karlstrom, Park Forester, Hartford, Conn., 
counsels fumigation of stock when received as a pre- 
caution, or digging up and fumigating younger plant- 
ings. He has constructed a box for this purpose, 19 
by 6 by 5 feet, and lined with heavy paper. In the 
side of the box is an opening 10 by 12 inches, and a 
sort of cage inside, where the chemicals are placed. 
The fumigating agents are : oz. of Potash Cyan- 
Idum, 7 oz. of Sulphuric acid, grade 184, and ii oz. 
of water. He describes the process as follows, and 
save that the breeding place of the scale is in the back 
yards of small city residences where a few apple, 
pear and peach trees are grown : Place the infested 
plants in the box and put on the cover. In order to 
let as little as possible of the highly poisonous fumes 
escape, cover the top of the box with heavy bags or 
matting. When preparing the chemicals, use a low, 
glazed vessel, with wide opening, holding about three 
quarts. Put in the acid first, then the water very 
carefully and stir slowly with a stake. Place the ves- 
sel in the cage inside of the box, then very carefully 
put in the Potash Cyanidum, which should be in a 
paper bag, bag and all. Close the shutter quickly and 
leave the box hurriedly. In half an hour the lid of 
the box may be opened, but take care not to breathe 
when near it. In five or six hours’ time the plants 
can be safely removed, and the box refilled, if de- 
sired.” 
Hans J. Koehler, Forester, Keney Park, Hartford, 
Conn., writes : “In Keney Park we have found 
Bowker’s Tree Wash very efficacious, applied with a 
spray pump twice during the winter at the rate of ip2 
lbs. to one gallon of water. Unlike kerosene this 
wash can be applied on a cloudy day just as safely as 
on a bright sunny day. Some badly infested peach 
twigs which had been sprayed with this w^ash were 
sent to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 
and the report came back that a thorough examination 
scale by scale of the several hundred which \A'ere on 
the twigs, showed less than two per cent to be alive. 
A closely related scale, Aspidiotus ancylus, and one 
that is easily mistaken for the San Jose, occurs in 
Hartford. I have found it on Cornus florida, and on 
Ilex verticillata, but not in injurious quantities. The 
two can be distinguished from one another by slight- 
ly rubbing and bruising them, and examining them 
vvith a magnifying glass, the San Jose scale will ap- 
pear lemon in color, and the Aspidiotus ancylus 
orange.” 
FALSE CONCEPTIONS IN PARK.MAKING, 
During the past year the Springfield, Mass., Repub- 
lican has published a series of interesting articles un- 
der the title “Let us make a Beautiful City of Spring- 
field.” The following suggestive extracts from the 
chapter devoted to Forest Park should be helpful to 
all engaged in park making. “It must be said that in 
the past false conceptions of what a park should be 
h.ave been the rule rather than the exception, and the 
American public has been led to admire a sort of 
landscape gardening which is false, tawdry and ugly. 
It is a good general rule that whatever style is 
adopted in laying out a park should be adhered to as 
consistently as possible, and if ilv ;e are violations of 
the rule they should be based on '^ome logical reason. 
A park may conform to two ideals : It may simulate 
nature, or it may be frankly a work of art. To try 
to follow both courses simultaneously is to invite 
failure from the outset. If for any reason it is expe- 
dient to introduce formalism into a park which is in 
the main left in a natural state, the more artificial 
portions must be sequestered as carefully as possible 
from those in which a 1 effect of wildness is sought. 
This is the very rudir.nnt of park-making, but how 
often it is violated ! 
It is futile to dogmatize as to the relative merits of 
the two styles; each is proper in its place. If an 
English gentleman’s private park is beautiful with its 
deer forests, lawns and copses, no less lovely in its 
way is an Italian garden, with its terraces, fountains, 
statues, cypress row.-,, and box-lined walks. To decry 
either shows a limit ition of taste. But it does not fol - 
low that either style will serve all purposes. Many 
factors must be considered — climate, situation, topog- 
raphy, scenery, size, purpose, cost, environment, popu- 
lation, racial traits, etc. A garden which would be 
charming beside the Tiber might seem tolerably ab- 
surd beside the Pecowsic. This lesson of fitness is 
being slowly learned by the American people, and in 
landscape gardening, as in art and literature, there is 
perhaps less disposition to imitate romantic foreign 
things than there was a generation ago. It 
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