THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 329 



GENERAL NOTES. 



PEACH ROOTS FOR STOCKS. 



I would appreciate it very much if you -would caution people in 

 your next ^lonthly Bulletin about planting prunes on peach root or 

 peaches on peach root, where they may be covered by seepage water 

 for any time. 



I have an orchard of 23 acres of French prunes on peach root six 

 years old and until now Avas as thrifty as any orchard you have ever 

 seen- but this orchard the past season was covered by seepage water, or 

 rather the water seeped out of the river, and it was from the middle 

 of December until the 20th of May before I could get a team in this 

 orchard to do any cultivating, as the ground was too wet, and as a 

 result I have lost practically all of my trees and, in fact, every one 

 that has even a small family orchard has lost all the apricot, peach 

 and almond trees, all of which were on peach roots. — Frank B. Gilliam. 



THE POTATO EMERGENCY CONVENTION. 



Dates changed to September 25th and 26th. 



The following letter has been received from Secretary Houston of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture : 



"Your letter of July 6, requesting that Mr. W. A. Ortou and 

 Professor William Stuart, of this Department, attend the potato 

 convention which you propose to hold in September, is received. 

 We shall take pleasure in arranging for their attendance if it will 

 be possible for you to have the meeting postponed until their 

 arrival in California, which will be about September 20th. Inas- 

 much as it will be desirable for them to acquaint themselves with 

 the situation before the meeting, it is suggested that September 

 24—25 or 25-26 would be convenient dates. 



Very respectfully, 



D. F. Houston, Secretary." 



We regret the necessity of a second change of the dates of this 

 important meeting, but the advantage of securing the presence of 

 Doctor Orton and Professor Stuart, the former pathologist in charge 

 of truck diseases, the latter in charge of potato investigations, as also 

 of Doctor Appel of Berlin, Germany, the leading authority on potato 

 diseases in Europe, makes any other course unthinkable. 



This convention will be one of great value. A program of excep- 

 tional interest and promise is being prepared,, and will be given wide 

 publicity in the near future. 



The potato interest in California is great. Its welfare is threatened. 

 It is hoped that this convention will clarify the atmosphere and that 

 our markets will be restored to their old-time dimensions and will suffer 

 no further limitations. 



A. J. Cook, 

 State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



