Cutting blight from nursery stock. Note theV.bag into . which 
the blight shoots are put, the bottle of corrosive 
sublimate, and the sponge at the 
end of a string. 
Canker extending downward from cankered 
stub of previous season, cleaned out 
ready for disinfection and painting. 
As a tree appeared after the pruning made necessary 
by one season of the unchecked ravages of pear 
blight in an old Bartlett pear tree. 
Cankers almost always appear about the base of blighted 
spurs or water-sprouts. 
THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 272 
ON FIRE BLIGHT OF PEARS AND APPLES 
