86 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



NOTES FROM THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 



By Geo. P. Weldon, Chief Deputy State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



Mr. 0. E. Bremner recently made the important discovery in Sonoma 

 County that certain nursery trees shipped in from the outside were 

 diseased with the oak root fungus, Ai^millaria mellea. We Cjuote in 

 part from a letter written by him on December 30th, as follows : 



"On December 22d there arrived at Setaastopol, two sliipments of nursery stock; 

 one of tiiese consisted of 685 Imperial prunes, the other contained' 200 sugar 

 prunes. Upon examination both appeared to be infected with oak root fungus. 

 They were, therefore, held wliile samples were sent to the Whittier Plant Disease 

 Laboratory, and last night we received word confirming our diagnosis. These 

 trees may not have been grown in California, for I find that many nurserymen 

 are importing from Eastern states and Oregon and are then reshipping to other 

 parts of the state, and only last week we refused to issue our certificates for 

 some of this stock, obliging the nurserymen to ship under the original tags." 



The fact that this disease may be disseminated by the planting of 

 affected nursery trees necessitates the greatest care on the part of all 

 county commissioners in looking over nursery stock, that its presence 

 may be detected. To spread such a disease broadcast in this manner 

 would be little short of a calamity and Mr. Bremner deserves the 

 co-operation of every commissioner in the state in his efforts to prevent 

 such trees from being planted. 



The following horticultural commissicners have been reappointed for 

 the coming four years : Geo. W. Harney, Yuba County ; H. P. Stabler, 

 Sutter County ; H. H. Bowman, Placer County ; Roy K. Bishop, Orange 

 County. 



In Riverside County R. P. Cundiff, after long years of service as a 

 commissioner, during which time he has made a host of friends, was 

 succeeded by David D. Sharp. IMr. Sharp has been working under 

 Mr. Cundiff and is well qualified for his new position. 



In Tulare County Charles F. Collins was appointed in place of 

 A. G. Sehulz. The latter has been a faithful worker as commissioner 

 in his county for the past four years. ]\Ir. Collins is a wide-awake 

 peach grower of the county and those who know him best liespeak suc- 

 cess for him in the work of county horticultural commissioner. 



Report of the State Board of Horticultural Examiners. 



Since the last report examinations for eligibles to the position of 

 county horticultural commissioner have been held with the following 

 results : 



Los Angelas County — Yolo County — Nevada County — 

 Eogei- Palmer. 0. H. Hecke. ^- F. Norton. 



A. G. Smith. Fred C. Brosius. Mendocino County— 



B. R. Jones. Wm. Gould. Guy E. Alpynne. 

 William Wood. Butte County— E- ^- Dutton. 

 Murray J. Black. Earle Mills. ^^'- ^^- Brandt. 



Claude Van Dyke. 



A. J. Cook, 

 Thomas F. Hunt, 

 Harry S. Smith, 

 State Board of Horticultural Examiners. 

 By Harry S. Smith, Secretary. 



