THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



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Pear blight. — Next to potato diseases pear blight is the great burn- 

 ing (luestiou now confronting the ranchers of California. It would 

 not even be second in importance except so many more of the people 

 depend upon potatoes not as a luxury but to keep the Avolf from the 

 door. I dare say that 95 per cent of the people consume potatoes, and 



Fig. 59.— Pear tree in the orchard of E. A. Gammon at Court- 

 land. A large portion of the tree was cut away because of 

 decay followmg removal of pear blight infected wood. It is 

 still a good producer. (Photo by Geo. P. Weldon.) 



many eat them seven days in the week and at each of the three 

 meals. Pears are a luxury, but California pears are so admirable and 

 the fruit has so limited a range that the grower who secures large annual 

 crops of delicious Bartletts can certainly afford a first-class automobile. 

 There is just one impediment to thwart success in pear culture — the 

 terrible pear blight. This has been referred to so often that we hesitate 



