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year or the next, many of them die. No variety is immune, spots having 

 been located amonp: the Emperor, Malaga, Muscat, Zinfandel, Tliomp- 

 son's, Mission, and some other varieties. So far a.s has been determined 

 the trouble is not confined to particular soils, nor influenced by irriga- 

 tion, though in all vines removed the roots give evidence of decay 

 preceding the final death of the plants. — J. W. Jeffrey. 



The Hassler Bartlett Pear. — For the past three years the writer has 

 been interested in a study of a new variety of pears which is growing 

 in the orchard of J. E. Hassler at Placerville. Mr. Hassler states that 

 the tree is a seedling which grew up in a chicken yard after a fire. It 

 resembles both the Bartlett and Winter Nelis varieties; the general 

 shape and appearance being like that of the former variety, while the 

 curved, rather long slender branches, are characteristic of the Winter 

 Nelis. Blooming takes place from ten days to two weeks later than the 

 Bartlett and the fruit ripens with the Winter Nelis. This season it was 

 ready to pick on October 15th. Many specimens are shaped exactly like 

 Bartlett, others resemble Winter Nelis. 



The flavor of the fruit is like that of the Bartlett, if anything a little 

 sweeter and a little finer. The grain is coarse and herein lies the 

 only undesirable characteristic that the fruit has developed so far. 



The tree has borne well each season since it came into bearing and 

 promises to be something that is well worth propagating. A full descrip- 

 tion and photographs of both the tree and fruit will be published in 

 "Pear Culture in California" which will be ready for distribution 

 within the next year. — G. P. W. 



Southern Horticultural Commissioners Discuss Horticultural Legis- 

 lation. — A meeting of the Horticultural Commissioners of southern 

 California counties with the State Commission of Horticulture and his 

 deputies was held on October 25th, in the office of the quarantine officer 

 in Los Angeles. The proposed amendments to the act relating to the 

 County Commissioner of Horticulture, as contemplated by the standing 

 committee on horticultural legislation, were approved in the main by 

 the commissioners. Those in attendance were Frederick Maskew, A. S. 

 Hovt, Roy K. Bishop, C. W. Beers, William Wood, H. ]\I. Armitage, 

 D. "d. Sharp, F. W. Waite, J. P. Coy, B. R. Jones and the writer.— 

 G. H. Hecke. 



California Fruit Growers' Exchange to Cooperate with the State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture. — The writer and Chief Deputy Quaran- 

 tine Officer, ]\Ir. Frederick Maskew, had the pleasure of addressing a 

 recent meeting of the board of directors of the California Fruit 

 Growers Exchange held in Los Angeles. It was indeed gratifying to 

 have the directors of this Fruit Exchange express, in no uncertain terms, 

 their desire to continue their cooperation, as in the past, with the State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture. The policies of the conmiission as out- 

 lined were endorsed.- — G. H. Hecke. 



