The Pear Psylla. 



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for pressure on tlie pump cannot be kept on strong enough or long 

 enough to do the work effectually. 



Results. — Notwithstanding a very long and severe drouth, we 

 brought through a very good crop of pears of excellent quality, the 

 first good crop in four years. The trees made growth and have 

 quite rallied from an ahnost hopeless condition of decline. 



June 18, 1890. I very thoroughly annihilated the psylla last 

 year. My pear orchard is improving remarkably. Sprayed only 

 once this season, they were so few." 



Disheartened pear growers cannot fail to find much encourage- 

 ment in the above account of how the ravages of this pear psyllti 

 were checked in one of the worst afflicted orchards in our State. 



