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a paper on this all important subject at the Forty-sixth State Fruit 

 GroAvers' Convention to be held at Stanford University. This address, 

 with one from Mr. Parsons, \vho is one of the most successful pear 

 growers in Oregon, and another by Professor Waite of Washington, 

 D. C, will be a most attractive feature of the July meeting of the fruit 

 growers. — A. J. C. 



Date Palm Law.— As the result of a conference held December 18, 

 1914, at Thermal, with the county horticultural commissioners of River- 

 side and Imperial counties, the executive coirnnittee of the Coachella 

 Date Palm Association, a representative from the Imperial Date Palm 

 Association and other growers, it was unanimously voted to request the 

 present legishiture to enact a quarantine law that would hold the date 

 palms and date palm offshoots in strict (piarantine under the super- 



FiG. 9. — The Marlatt scale, Phosnicococcus marlutti 

 Ckll. (After Essig.) 



vision of the State Commissioner of Horticulture until such time as 

 they are known to be entirely free from the two serious date palm 

 scales, Flia'xicococcus marlatti and Farlatoria blanchardii. These two 

 scale pests are very destructive and seem to be the only impediments 

 in the way of a great success with this fruit in southeastern California. 

 This explains why the proposed law is so urgently desired and unani- 

 mously requested. — A. J. C. 



Pear Blight. — California Bartlett pears are so excellent and so 

 easily shipped with no loss of quality, so far beyond compare with those 

 of any other locality and are grown at their best in so many counties 



