The Pear Psylla. 



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for pressure on tLe 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 

 quite rallied from an almost 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." 



growth and have 



Disheartened pear growers cannot fail to find much encourage- 

 ment in tbe above account of how the ravages of this pear psylla 

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



