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SEU1-TR0PTC CA lTFORNTA. 
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THF FORMS OF 
• nuisances Tn planting HU orchard, choose paragraph oeonm: • 1 The result of our t-x- 
i*.dated (I uli.'-c us is practicable II animation of the diseased orange and ohvo 
iis.-lHli uienn Hot 1 m- obloineil. induce your | lw've R is bn. fly as follows: The ilimnst), 
! nci'dibor to join you in your efforts tn grow ! all hough hint attracting the eye In the 
; ,.] e , 7 „ f ra jf x’sr (be great, si care iu pur- presence «.f ,-i black fungus, ih not cnui-ed 
C , U . U I < „ oIiiismiiI' trees or importing buds. Before. by it, but lutherby the lit tuck of some in- 
ihfs limn i"i',.o.i, i fifteen planUr & ««* uS " 1 ?****** 
uIm. I, i„it-( c.1111vi|.<-I plant- it, vyill. mm iiiMOtioiile. .vcn if Huy appenr jo MibstAi.ru on the b-uf aud barb, or no 
sufficient mini Hr it, ,.„.v ujunou*. be elcai., I..r Ih- urdnunsd eye may fad to w< ? tbo tree »« to Min* «*» Ht.eky 
, J,, I, > W ||, detect . . 11S Mm-. - of these msc-uLs. po ; • 'Uibilion on trim'll I lie f'«ugu» .-specially 
I ,.: ici ,mi i i.ol visil ijifiMtisl ..rol.:ml» unne-essttrilv It In not deuw .1 that the growth 
which lorn preparing f«,i th. Departi. a«nl -•.» Ullage do M »ff? |. - !' . 
Of V ruultuV. ' 'll , ... .. .-po- prcimi-ii* uf seal, bugs us .-imoni,.- bl- already existing, by so cHOwiug II.., 
.Mi ... (Ih Sint.' ,, III. - Mini real.- Which your 11 ,-, - carefully, Mini if out- is eaves «n to prevail I (be action of the *Un- 
wldob i- ul.u.hluhi o„ riii- tn.-- ui .,1 cut fouu.l t.u bo infcsto-l with ambit, n- bfM WeonJvaay that iu “ek'Ugarc.n- 
..lives, nml lib-,, inf. »t« main- otJtci plaht«. member that no letter investment can be «dy no are to look further back than the 
in,-In.Imc the .Icriflu/uia ' frultn. This made than b- burn that tree, uttd that no 
ay roes with descriptions of -i emuraon [ lime is eo good for doing it a* |h» day when 
l'.iiri.ji.-:ih fipc. i.;s—A'r „.i<"Ti. oh « - ,iud. I; it is first found to bo infested. The ayntciii 
presume will prove to bo the same. If of exchange of fruit boxes isavvrv dunger- 
Ons one Uuob shipper should have his 
boxes marked, and insist, on mil receiving 
bores belonging h» oilier shippers. 
SCALE BUGS. 
Prof. J. H CoMKTCM.'K. 
sexut err.- ocontnrsa •>* mi 
napiv coast. 
The following paper whs rend before the 
Thoxe will be descril■ 
of horn occurring. in Ih 
this In true, flic species wn diMititless 
brought fiom Europe on citron trees An¬ 
other very important spn-n s i- that known 
ns the “led BOftlu." 'This ie ns yet uii- 
d.-scrilM d, J have, however, in manuscript, 
n ml v lor publication, h dem'iiption, i nr hid 
ki .mi'imi h pok rviniMixAiixa ini rr>i -. 
fn many oases, however, tin peals lum 
fungus if self—to t he in.sect, or whatever 
it tuny l„ which has made the luxuriant 
grow III of the fungus possible," 
My own observations confirm Ihew, con¬ 
clusions. In fuel, before I had read Pro¬ 
fessor Fallow - paper, I liud learned to 
consider the presence of fungus on the 
leaves .-Li. a sure iudioulion of the presem-e 
of scale insects, And ns I had never been 
able to find the fungus organically con¬ 
ned ill with plants, but siiuplv growing 
.,'tr the sin face of t hem near the eonciils, 
and easily removed by rubbing, 1 supposed 
that it grew upon the honey-dew which 
the insects oxrrelid. and which so fie- 
ipu-ully att racts the vi-it of the ants. This 
Inuu-y-dew is doubtless the gum my aub- 
sini.ee which Professor Fallow observed. 
I’mfessor Furhiw siiggci-ta, uu ii means of 
mg figure- i,| diJlcrcut stiignx and both j gained such n foothold that these method* 
sexes Then e- i.l.iind'iut proof tb it tliis of warfare arc imjirai-ticablc. nml a reined} 
? pi-, ies was introduced fimn Austrnlia I which will destroy Ihese insects without, in 
These two evnmplcs nre sufficient to show juring the tree is desirable, I have beguu 
the d;n c i of iul.ro,bicing p( inici.-ii postal a huge series of cspi rimoiits with ditTerent 
with i •otic jdanls. 'The sum, thing tins j suhsi.iuicf >. hoping to find such a luncdv. 
Iinjipi ned in Florida. Although the two These experiments iue. ux yet, incomplete, 
epecii’s juhI mentioned do no! iHvur in that and I will only Biota that kii fur | have 
Slate, one very clo-ely allied to tin- •• rml found nothing wore desirable, taking into 
h ih ha- been inliodin-i d from ('ulm., coiiHid.-i .ition it.-; value us an in-ccticnk', iK ,lc-troyiug I lit- fungus, the use of alkaline 
tin I aiK.tl,, r, i In nu-s t coiniuou on orun-jc efleet upon the I if-c, and it elo apuc-s, limn soaps us strong us the t ri-es will bear. 1 f 
in Ill'll Slate , i* a I uu)*.-..ii specie-. All » slroug solution of whale-oil .amp. 1 ’lu -1 our cmudiiHioiiH respecting the fungus be 
,-f the,' i.i- cts, how.-vi i, mu not fon i;;n I apply with u fouulnin pump or a garden 1 true, this remedy will bo a very olTnctuii) 
. I ■ 1 ■ ■ i r . ,i in pie,! h e im no unde-crib, d \vriiu;, . And an it is impossible ulmi'M , 1 one, for it will'destroy the sonic insectu 
sciil, comm,-iioii „livi, p-jar, I'e;. nml cl.litr to thoioughly ivet every . a heft by u lingl., ivlncb lender its preseiiee possildo. An 
tree- in this Suite which 1 bar. good re,, application, h.-vaihI nre initially necessary. I iulereatiug fact, which I have bumuontly 
, on to 1 , lie.I'lorn spread jn lb' .;ultivitr.al .Many «>tli. i .nl.'-tanct ha>eb,-r-u ta-t-d. •hsnrvml ix that where there id n liivnruint 
tn es fioni lie native wilu-svs Anil in and I hi- results I the expniiuujiibs will he growth "f this fuuuiiB, it not, only feeds 
J '."Tlu then IS a .."jb- which is .pole cm- published ax -non a- praclioable, I will 1 upon Ho,-honny-dew', but attacks mid do- 
mo" "" Cl liu, t,.,- „inl Other plant,. Which I add. l.ow„v W , that I have .. most . a- jstroys the vou.'.gcoccids I In n,helves. Thua 
I In,hove Im- spread from the pull bn ry, an , culleiit ii mills in the orehurd of V.C.M.iaoi, some iuhtuneem 1 lmve found a largo 
o,.n i .. ,„„i lursh very eonimuu tlirmighout «d Sau Jose, . . the use of the following proportion of the young coecids on a leaf 
novlmc. One pound cue. .dratcl lye. d. -t.v, V o,l in this way, and whon the re¬ 
mit- pint gasol.no or bumue, hub pint oil. mmoBof the insectH were e-uimiuej with a 
nvo gallons wator. 
suer OK uiumiK thi i am, iu.ii*jn>Kau 
Assupiutu.l with eertain cou.-idx, and .>. 
paciiilir with lh> e wliieh ,|„ m,| „ 
rOule-bko co vi mm op' to the body, ns hu- 
hcen already desciibnd, i- a black suh- 
l.iieronc.ope, the fungus Wll" set n project- 
my in great ipmutilioa from Hi. m. At first 
tlmuglit. Huh would seem t,> lie n nut mill 
rciiiedy ; but 1 lilt.I that, it n< rniij that coi- 
cids III (I destroyed except upon thu upper 
s"i fuoc of the leaves, who re the fungus is 
, mnut, abundant Thm is probably duo to 
»•-’« THE Scvl-fc IVKVXV is Wlli Vti, 
A w. rd us to th. modfi of -pleading ncule 
innoU. As I have already staled, wilb 
most spfcioB the adult icmule is lirmh ut- 
luclud to tin, plant upon which »hu lives; 
she is conseipii'iiOy a “slay-at home liody " 
And although Hit adult, male- are winded, 
11 “ obvious that Uii pneta oould nut bo, , ., lu.m 
ever, (lie very uctivu, cmwlinn about frum 
on. part of Dll infested tt'o to another, OJ 1 ,W . CK , 
.. <" “Hom 1.1 e. s V, liicli . . tie nc.,1. ' j. 1 r '- v l "" ,m ’ ih J« > - f^puJurlv I 'mffiuieniTmoin vr 1 uT" :, ' K T' 
dul.H, oft. u happen,; tlml these li.u .f'™ '«»*•" •« •* fn , n ni | | ,,, ^ ‘ ”^"‘7 ,,f ,ll ‘ ''. v 'nuUMds ,I ,o 
'• n.o I,ni-I„ ,| from th.. !,»«.: I,., V’ bee ," •'•'twnuor.d by I'rof. Fallow, ut i ,t ", u( tbo , ‘‘»YCs to restock (he 
r vr liiute pm^,. f . ami ,u. Ho,-. 111 " !' FoWU-m ruh-um. „ «p„ B i f , J - 
1. "Ml,.;. ,,,„i c.awl ,.1„. «hich t.xs bu.g b- ,, i known i„ E Ur „p ( (ll , I 1'.., ... ,o , , . , 
and oinrioe lee, Ii muvm 1 11 11 buut ‘h uf pirfnwtly 
- v ■> obnnduut ,u tin. Statu on ohande, \,Tui ’"".TT 
' oianj;.-,, and oth-. plauis infested In Hi,')., I,:,t HU ".>cc "I I he bmvea, and Urn ouu- 
M-u'k -calc, „nd ,n FJornla .... tn .il »* " »»*«. «f Ih- Hingua 
Vi1 '" 1 <-y iicnoMiy bn,- j. i.pouuiurivi. r, : mnih ». a 
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mie, and ( 1 ,,j-, be eumud Imi" din- in..,. It « u ve, v aer,- Mou ml ,. UI 1’ 1 ' , ""' N - V 
1" Hi most i.- 1,1 •’"nptal. imiii'ing IIk- appeara,,., of pl«„U, L „. rt 1.?, "'"i ,?'T * V V1" 
' I" 1-M.re.ti l.lbutad is tw the ?/‘ d 111 ' ""a.II Heel k.iib of ibis State vv 1„ I bem h- v e,,» K ' a " <l ^ ,f ll "' 
■ Ii." (Uten any; if flut, puireture bcv- 
<Ual with . . . - • -- 1 - 
of tr, 
him 
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r iiu ut. i 
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KU.I fruit hilimU'd J 1 « ? uv«rt>i oiaugr-H grua'y ri-duceH the ani r . „ r ,„ WIth . 
I ct -ului of the fruit. An eveelloni , T ,n ,l, ‘d uole tin eftVot on tlm 
on the mil nr. il hiatorv of tin . ,,,, K' ,,l )'tui and the om« punctured, ami 
l" Mi publistied I.y I', ,f. r.oluw I *' t '' M '•"••W if Uu, Lon really eat 
" Bulletin ol the Ibibsy IuslitiiteiQ u { '/ nh,t for n full teal, and ro* 
' .M thcb. void Tinv>.unit) ni which (I,. Jullowiiin J"'' ' ,01 " *P , »po-grotvera and l. t - liocp- 
jr ci i.v mi. n , 
mggest Hi-- foliinunu 
the 
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