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riety entirely immune from the blight, 
and bears abundantly along the Gulf 
Coast and in Florida wherever it has been 
planted. 
Another variety that has been fruit¬ 
ing in Lake County, Florida, for many 
years is the Cincincis. While your com¬ 
mittee could not recommend such varie¬ 
ties as the LeConte, Bartlett, Keiffer, or 
Garber for Florida planting, yet we have 
no hesitation in recommending either the 
Sand Pear or the Cincincis. These va¬ 
rieties are not of the high flavor and 
quality of many of the pears grown in 
the North, yet they are excellent for pre¬ 
serving and canning, and should not be 
overlooked in selecting deciduous fruits 
for Florida. 
There are other deciduous fruits that 
might be considered, but these are the 
most prominent and the ones that should 
be considered by every home owner. 
In closing the report, your committee 
wishes to emphasize the fact that if you 
expect satisfactory results from these de¬ 
ciduous fruits, when planted in out of 
the way places and neglected wholly or 
partially, it is useless to plant them, but 
if carefully planted and given the same 
careful attention, the successful citrus 
fruit grower gives his orange or grape¬ 
fruit trees, satisfactory results may be ex¬ 
pected, and you will find that diversifica¬ 
tion in fruit growing is equally as satis¬ 
factory as diversification in farming. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Dade: Some of our persimmon 
trees have cast their leaves, and in a 
short time were apparently dead, with no 
apparent cause. I have seen some of our 
healthiest trees do this way. 
Mr. Griffing: How old were the 
trees ? 
Mr. Dade: About four or five years 
old. 
Mr. Griffing: I would call attention 
to the fact that the Tane Nashi persim¬ 
mon trees hardly ever get to be over 
seven or eight years of age without dy¬ 
ing, for no apparent cause. However, 
often when you find these trees dying, 
if you will look carefully you will find 
a borer at the root. I cannot say what 
is the cause of the Tane Nashi and oth¬ 
er varieties dying, unless it is the lack 
of the long life quality which is natural 
to the tree. The Zengi is, I presume, 
the most long lived; next to that, the 
Triumph, and next to that the Tane 
Nashi, which is one of the shortest 
lived varieties. 
Mr. Dade: The trouble seems to com¬ 
mence at the top of the tree and, so far 
as I can see, there is nothing whatever 
the matter with it. 
Mr. Hume: Examine your tree very 
carefully for borers. Frequently they 
are in the tree and you do not find them 
until you cut it open. I have come to 
the conclusion that the greatest enemy to 
the long life of the tree is the flat-headed 
borer. You cannot tell he is there. If 
you will watch the trees at a certain 
season of the year, just in the spring af¬ 
ter the leaves are out, you will find the 
gum beginning to ooze through the bark. 
Then go over them with a knife and an 
oil can of carbolineum. It will attack the 
native stock; you will find it in the native 
