THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletins 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological 

 journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



G. H. Hecke, State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



E. J. VosLER, Secretary State Commission of Horticulture Editor 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 



Geo. p. Weldon Chief Deputy Commissioner 



Haert S. Smith Superintendent Stat© Insectary 



Frbdhrick Maskew Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at the post office at Sacramento, 



California, under the act of .Tune 6, 1900. 



The State Plant Board of Florida has recently issued a quarterly 

 bulletin which we believe will meet with the same appreciation by 

 Florida fruit growers as the fruit growers of the state of California 

 have shown the Monthly Bulletin. If the editor of this publication 

 continues to serve his readers with the good things he has given in the 

 first issue there will be no question of its success. It is with consider- 

 able pride and gratification that we are reprinting herewith a para- 

 graph taken from this quarterly bulletin. We hope that we have made 

 our publication of value as the editor of the Florida Bulletin says we 

 have. It will be our constant effort to keep this publication on a prac- 

 tical scientific basis. 



''The Quarterly Bulletin. In presenting this, the first number 

 of the "Bulletin," to the farmers and growers of Florida, we 

 frankly confess to having modeled it after that most excellent 

 journal, "The Monthly Bulletin," published by the California 

 State Commission of Horticulture. 



' ' For nearly five years the Monthly Bulletin has carried its mes- 

 sages to the fruit growers and citizens of California, keeping them 

 informed regarding the latest horticultural methods, the best means 

 of fighting insect pests and diseases and current information 

 regarding the efficient quarantine system which has kept so many 

 destructive insects and plant diseases out of that state. Its num- 

 bers are in demand wherever fruit is grown, both in the United 

 States and foreign countries, and it has attained the enviable 

 position of being one of the foremost publications devoted to the 

 practical application of scientific knowledge. In launching a 

 Florida publication intended to serve a somewhat similar purpose 

 we have elected to follow a good example rather than to try experi- 

 ments in the — to us— uncharted sea of 'journalism.' " 



The Chestnut Bark Disease. — From various reliable sources informa- 

 tion has come to the California State Commissioner of Horticulture 

 that the eastern chestnut-growing districts are seriously afflicted with 



