THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 571 



Special State Citrus Convention. — Over 40,000 carloads of fruit— 

 niillious of dollars cash return — tell the citrus story in our goodly State. 

 Such a record demands special consideration. This year the National 

 Orange Show of San Bernardino, which has won admiration annually 

 from visitors for the past five years, will add another attraction in a 

 two days' special citrus convention. Only citrus topics will be dis- 

 cussed, and thus every paper, from start to finish, will be of interest to 

 all citrus growers. Tentatively, we may say that one entire session will 

 be given to the orange, one to the lemon, the pomelo will be discussed, 

 and another session will be devoted to the subject of marketing.. Stand- 

 ardization will not be forgotten, and the maturity test will be explained. 

 It is expected that one session will be given over entirely to the Citrus 

 Experiment Station at Riverside. We are promised a paper of exceed- 

 ing excellence on fighting scale insects. We hope that many citrus 

 growers south of Tehachapi and not a few north will plan at once to be 

 in attendance. The orange show alone would pay generously for the 

 expense of time and money in making the trip. This convention will 

 add an intellectual flavor that no one should miss. — A. J. C. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with deep regret that it becomes necessary to chronicle, in this 

 issue of the Monthly Bulletin, the deaths of two of the county horticul- 

 tural Commissioners. On November 22, Mr. H. H. Bowman, of Placer 

 County, passed away, and on November 29 Mr. William Garden, of San 

 Joaquin County, succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. 



Mr. Bowman was a resident of the town of Bowman, named after 

 him. For years he has performed the duties of county horticultural 

 commissioner, and was w^ell and favorably known by a vast number of 

 people with whom he had been laboring for the benefit of the horti- 

 cultural industry of his county. 



Mr. Garden has been an active and energetic worker in everything 

 pertaining to the betterment of horticulture in his field of action. In 

 the meetings of the Association of County Horticultural Commissioners 

 he has always taken a leading part. 



The State will miss the services of these two men, and the sincere 

 sympathy of all in the office of the State Commission of Horticulture 

 is extended to their families. 



