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As a preventive of any of these forms of 

 the disease, plant out the trees, in dryish, rich 

 soil, and occasionally root-prune them. As a 

 remedy, cut off seasonably the affected parts 

 down to the perfectly healthy, sound wood. 



Downing says of this malady, that it has, 

 at different times, been " the terror and the 

 despair of pear growers." The disease is 

 irregular both in the time and the manner of 

 its attacks. It sometimes destroys only a 

 single limb ; at other times it, in the course of 

 a few days, causes the death of an entire tree. 

 In some sections of the country it is scarcely 

 known ; in others its ravages have been such 

 as to greatly discourage the cultivation of the 

 fruit. The disorder has, as yet, done com- 

 paratively little mischief in the New England 

 States. 





