Excerpt from The Economic Status of Insects: As a Class A very recent instance of an international importation of striking value is the sending of Norms cardinalis from this country to Portugal, where the white or fluted scale has been checked and in many orchards ex terminated in the course of a single year. This importation was made by the writer with the invaluable assistance of the Cali fornia State Board of Horticulture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.