. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Brown apricot scale {Eulecanium aTtneniacum.) Brown Apricot Scale.—The apricot tree, though defying the most ruinous scales of some other trees, is beset by certain scales. The black scale is one and the brown apricot scale another. The brown apricot scale {Eulccanium Anneniaciini) is boat-shaped; when reaching maturity, wrinkled; the color is a shiny brown, darker in the center, lighter at the edges. A full-sized scale has a length. Hemispherical scale [Saisietia hemispherical,) Soft Oilvxge Scale (Coccus Hcsperi- duni).—This scale is a
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Brown apricot scale {Eulecanium aTtneniacum.) Brown Apricot Scale.—The apricot tree, though defying the most ruinous scales of some other trees, is beset by certain scales. The black scale is one and the brown apricot scale another. The brown apricot scale {Eulccanium Anneniaciini) is boat-shaped; when reaching maturity, wrinkled; the color is a shiny brown, darker in the center, lighter at the edges. A full-sized scale has a length. Hemispherical scale [Saisietia hemispherical,) Soft Oilvxge Scale (Coccus Hcsperi- duni).—This scale is a pest of citrus trees the world over. The scale is ovoid, a little wider at one end than the other; length, from one- of a quarter of an inch, and a width of one- eighth of an inch. This scale attacks nearly all kinds of deciduous fruits, but especially the prune and apricot. It is a very hardy scale, and the remarks about the black scale apply to it Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wickson, Edward James, 1848- [from old catalog]. San Francisco, The Pacific rural press
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