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THE PEAR. 



abundant, not only is the crop of fruit for the 

 year deteriorated or totally destroyed, but the 

 tree itself eventually perishes. Fortunately the 

 disease is rare ; as, when it appears in a garden, 

 it defies all attempts to check it. A writer in the 

 Gardener s Magazine, (vol. ix. 333) states that 

 on its first appearance it attacked only three trees 

 in his garden ; but the number gradually in- 

 creased, until seventy, all in fact that stood in 

 that part of the garden, had fallen victims. 



