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ftSVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
the orange suffers most severely. The date of importation is 
1871. It was 1882 before any strong efforts were made to 
eradicate it, and it was 1890 before it was finally gotten under 
control. The local horticultural -societies worked hard; the 
county horticultural societies aided all they could; the State 
Horticultural Society went to the legislature; the legislature 
appropriated money and passed laws; congress made special 
appropriations, and for a while it looked like the world against 
the fluted scale. It is now under control, but it took more 
money tuan any legislative body ever gave to the orange indus¬ 
try of Florida. It is not our good j udgment that ha* kept it out 
of Florida, but rather the strict quarantine of California. If 
it were to be imported to several places in Florida, I predict 
that it would defy all lertdizers, insecticides, and all gases; it 
would take up its abode in our hammocks and bay heads on 
the bay trees and other evergreens, making them a constant 
source of infection. They would be a scourge, the like of 
which has never visited our balmy state. 
SAN JOSE SCALE. 
( A&pidiotus pertiiciosus com.) 
This very pernicious scale was imported from Chili, and, 
therefore, an imported enemy. It has been called the San 
Jose scale, because it was destructive in the ban Jose country, 
and t he first work was done against it in that va ley. In spite of 
all efforts, time consumed and money spent with a view of 
destroying it, there is still a respectable amount of the infection 
left there; sufficient within a few years to infect Maryland, 
Virginia, New Mexico and Florida. We are threatened. In 
California it has defied the w county horticultural societies, the 
state horticultural societies, the legislature and the United 
States Division of Entomology to dislodge it. Like the fabled 
hydra of old, it springs up out of its own ashes. While you 
are cutting it to pieces in California the chips fall in New 
Mexico, in Maryland, in Virginia and Florida. Ladies and 
gentlemen—If this pest is allowed to be disseminated through¬ 
out Northern Florida, who will in 1904 represent the Florida 
State Horticultural Society from that section ? 
Mr. President, you will pardon me if I digress from the en¬ 
tomological on so important a question. 
SERAH. 
At the Pensacola meeting Prof. Swingle called the atten¬ 
tion of the society to the fact that there existed in Java a 
bacterial disease of sugar cane. That there has been a stand¬ 
ing offer tor four years of $5,000 to anyone devising a prac¬ 
tical plan for overcoming this disease. The Professor also 
