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season should be added, notwithstanding a considerable vacation among^ 

 other sights, if not more interesting, at the great Centennial. Consider- 

 able time was devoted lo pear blight, and, it is believed, some progress 

 made towards at least ascertaining the direct cause of the malady. The 

 subject is now and will be, opportunity permitting, continued, in the 

 hope of having something definite to say another time. 



