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CITRUS BLAST A NEW BACTERIAL DISEASE. 



i [j i; \y, i [odoioNj Unlver»lt) ol ' !allfoi nle 



During the Las! few months considerable attention and studj has been 

 given in a new disease which l>i'ls fair to become of considerable eco 

 aomic importance in California, Several months ago Professor J, Eliot 

 Coil of the College of Agriculture published an article on the subject 

 in the Q, 0. Journal of Agriculture, in which be suggested the name 

 "Citrus Blast." Recently there has appeared a technical article on 



• i wIkh affected wti ii • II 



Haul oitrart i m allowing tbt 



iduo 'i by the d i 



citrus blast in the Journal of Agricultural Research by II A Lee limn 

 much as tin- writer has been interested in t hi« di ease from the time of 

 its first appearance ami has had opportunity to study it carefully at 

 Br i hand, his observations may be of interest to .Monthly Bulletin 

 reader 



Firit Appearance. 



In the summer of 1912 the writer w;is engaged in top working omi 

 ■di) seedling orange trees situated about six miles southwest of On, villi-. 

 In doing this work h<- had occasion to cut bud wood in an adjoining 



