CONTENTS. 



Page 

 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIPENING OF BARTLETT 



PEARS W. Y. Cruess and P. M. Stone 425 



THE IMPROVEMENT OF NURSERY STOCK A. L. Wiskeb 430 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFIT IN HORTICULTURE 



Myrtle Shepard Francis 434 



GENERAL NOTES— 



Concerning the Monthly Bulletin 438 



The Chestnut Bark Disease 438 



The Sugar Beet Leaf-hoppeu 440 



The Sicilian Mealybug Parasite at Marysville 440 



The Forty-ninth Fkuit Growers' Convention at Napa 440 



Amendment to Quarantine Order No. 28 , 443 



The Eight to One I'^st in Fresno County , 444 



Report of the Committee on Resolutions, Forty-ninth State Fruit 



Growers' Convention , 445 



COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' DEPARTMENT— 



CONIUM Maculatum •/. B. Hickman 447 



Revision in the List of Horticultural Commissioners 447 



ON DELPHASTUS CATALIN^, A VALUABLE LADYBIRD ENEMY 



OF THE WHITE FLIES Harry S. Smith and E. J. Branigan 448 



QUARANTINE DIVISION— 



Report for the Month of October Frederick Maskeiv 451 



ERRATA, VOLUME V 453 



INDEX, VOLUME V 454 



