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where present, in the development of leaf blight, bitter and brown 

 rot, black, knot, crown gall, anthracuose, yellows and rosettes. The 

 more animate, aphides, the woolj, the black and green, the oyster 

 shell, the scurfy, and various other scales, with that worse pest, 

 the San Jos6 Scale, are some of the insects, taxing the patience 

 and industry of the horticulturist. Adding to these, the round 

 and flat-head borers, bag worms, leaf crumplers, fall and tent cater- 

 pillars,^ tree hoppers, katydids, yellownecks, canker worms, codling 

 moth, apple maggots and curculios, are enough to tax the time 

 and ingenuity of the most industrious to make fruit growing a 

 success. Referring again to anthracnose, seldom mentioned, yet 

 in some sections, quite prevalent and damaging to trees and fruit, 

 the specimens at hand plainly show its effects, and a bulletin issued 

 by the Oregon Station several years ago was the first observed to 

 illustrate and describe it as apple tree anthracnose. 



There is another more serious enemy abroad than any of those 

 enumerated, in the form of a biped class, vertebra, ge7ms homo, 

 evolved from a tribe of anthropoids. Given a little time and ah axe 

 as an outfit, will do more damage in a short time than all the rest, 

 and there is no law yet enacted, but there should be, to restrain this 

 species from continuing the destruction of fruit trees so much in 

 evidence throughout the country. The same species is also found 

 in towns and cities many times absorbing the profits to which 

 the producer is entitled, posing as dealers, transient and irrespon- 

 sible, obtaining supplies from the unsophisticated, for which ac- 

 count of sales rendered may be entirely omitted or ostensibly 

 absorbed in expenses, commissions and freight charges, ending in 

 partial or total confiscation. Considered from all points of view, 

 the ti^ee butcher is the most destructive being, his work past and 

 present being in evidence in all sections of Pennsylvania, next to 

 the irresponsible commission merchant. 



The following paper was read: 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE PEACH. 



1?Y WM. M. DlCKSox. TToik/m'!?!'. Drl. 



Having all my life been connected with agriculture and its in- 

 terest in the Delaware Peninsula, ray desire to meet in this Capital 

 City of a great State with an assemblage met, not for civic, political 



