years ago. The colder parts of the Province have suffered as severely 

 from the disease as the more favoured districts. The orchard of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farm, at Ottawa, has been attacked, and the 

 140 Russian variety of apples cultivated there have suffered severely. 

 In warmer districts, however, the disease has been much more severe. 

 Whole orchards have been completely destroyed in the State of Texas, 

 and certain pear-growing districts in that State have been practically 

 ruined by this parasite. 



Losses. No statistics are available to give us an idea as to the 

 amount of loss to fruit growers from pear blight, but a few references 

 to losses by this destructive disease wHll help to give us an appreciation 

 of the subject. Coxe, in 1817, reported that he had lost upwards of 

 fifty trees in twenty years. In the years 1826, 1832, and 1844 there 

 was an increased prevalence of the disease, and few pear orchards 

 escaped without partial or total loss of many trees and some orchards 

 were quite destroyed. Downing called it the " monstrous malady of 

 the pear." Lyons stated, as the opinion of many cultivators in the 

 State of Michigan, that " The pear tree cannot be grown with financial 

 success on account of the blight." Hallam, in 1882, reported that, 

 " In Southern Illinois, pears have failed — utterly failed — so that none 

 are now cultivated for market. The blight has destroyed the trees, 

 branch and root ; '' while A. Noice of the same State, doubted " if oue- 

 tenth of the pear trees that are planted lived ten years on account of 

 this destructive agent." E. H. S. Dart stated that the severities of 

 winter were not so much to be dreaded as the ravasi:es of bliojht. He 

 had in 1874 one to two thousand trees affected. Dr. P. A. Jewell, in 

 1876, lost 10,000 Tetcfsky apple trees by it. Bailey, of Cornell, 

 declared that tire blight was undoubtedly the most serious disease 

 with which the quince grower had to contend. It is the same disease 

 which is so destructive to pear orchards in certain years and to 

 certain varieties of apples, particularly the crabs. Selby, of Ohio, 

 reported that the disease ranks among the most destructive known to 

 tlie orchardist in his State. Chester, of Delaware, announced that 

 pear blight was of unusual severity during the season of 1901 and 

 caused much alarm because of its rapid spread through the orchards 

 of the State. In 1895 its ravages were most severe on apple trees in 

 the vicinity of Hamilton and Burlington Bay. J. Craig gathered 

 information as to the character of injury of the disease from fruit 

 growers throughout this Province and a number of these state that 

 the injury was very severe. 



