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The following varieties are proved to be entire failures 

 here: 



Family, 



Rhodes' Orange, 



Chattahoochee Greening, 



Equinettilee, 



Buncombe, 



Laurens Greening, 



Oconee Greening, 



Palmer, 



Pry or' s Red, 



Bradford's Best, 



Taunton, 



Junaluskee. 



PEAKS. 



In 1885 forty varieties of pears were planted, a description 

 of which can be found in Bulletin No. 30, page 9 — all of 

 which have succumbed to the blight, excepting the Keiffer, 

 Garber's Hybrid, Duchesse d' Angouleme, Mount Vernon, 

 and Winter Nelis. While the Large Duchesse afid Smith's 

 Hybrid, and LeConte are not entirely dead, they are so badly 

 affected that very little hopes are entertained of their recov- 

 ery. When the blight first attacked these trees, the most 

 vigorous efforts were made to eradicate it, by pruning and 

 burning the diseased portions, but with no avail. So many 

 enquiries are made about this blight, that the following 

 quotation is made from Bulletin No. 8, 1889. U, S. Dept. 

 Agriculture by Dr. Geo. Vasey, and Prof. B. T. Galloway, 

 in reply to a letter from C. H. Franklin, Union Springs, 

 Ala. "This malady is caused by one of the most minute 

 of living organisms, a species of bacteria. They are fre- 

 quently spoken of, as disease producing germs, and the mal- 

 ady they occasion belongs to the same category of germ 

 diseases now definitely proven to occur among animals and 



