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Annals of Horticulture. 



wherever used in this act, shall refer to black-knot only, and 

 not to trees affected with yellows. 



"Sec. 7. The commissioners shall be allowed for services 

 under this act, $2 for each full day, and $1 for each half day, 

 and their other charges and disbursements thereunder, to be 

 audited, as well as any other charges and disbursements under 

 this act, by the township board ; all of which costs, charges, 

 expenses and disbursements may be recovered by the town- 

 ship from the owner of said diseased fruit, or from the owner 

 of the premises on which said diseased trees stood, in an ac- 

 tion of assumpsit." 



There has been an energetic movement in California during 

 the year to protect the State from the importation of the yel- 

 lows. The State Board of Horticulture has issued a pam- 

 phlet * upon the subject, giving the opinions of eastern horti- 

 culturists upon the probability of the importation of the dis- 

 ease in buds and nursery stock, and giving the California law 

 which empowers horticultural commissioners to inspect 

 orchards and stock, and to eradicate any disease. The Cali- 

 fornia law provides that " it shall be the duty of the inspector 

 the of fruit-pests, or the quarantine guardian, to inspect fruit- 

 w ' packages, and all trees and plants, cuttings, grafts and scions, 

 known or believed to be infested by any insect or insects, or 

 the germs thereof, or their eggs, larvae, or pupae, injurious to 

 fruit or fruit-trees, or infested with any disease liable to spread 

 contagion, imported or brought into this State from any for- 

 eign country, or from any of the United States or Territories ; 

 and if, upon inspection, such fruit or fruit-packages are found 

 to be infested or infected, it shall be a misdemeanor to offer 

 the same for sale, gift, distribution or transportation, unless 

 they shall be first disinfected. ' ' The State Board of Horti- 

 culture last summer passed the following resolutions relative 

 to yellows : 



"Whereas, We are informed that some nurserymen, 

 through the scarcity of peach-stocks for budding prunes, have 

 contracted for large lots of eastern peach-stock for budding 

 purposes for next season's delivery ; and whereas, there is 

 great danger of introducing into this State the yellows, a 

 deadly disease of the peach, on said roots, and on peach 



*Peach Yellow?. By B. M. Lelong, Sacramento. 



