The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . THE FIRE BLIGHT. —CRACKING OF PEARS. BY J. H. ERNST, CINCINNATI, HAVE been a learner for the last fifty years, a large por-tion of it devoted to Horticulture. My zeal hasprompted me to a close scrutiny of the various pheno-r^^^ywir ViVa^IIO* iiiena that often cross the Horticulturists path, the so- lution of which has not always been as satisfactory as is desirable. This is especially the case with the Pear, thetrees and the maladies to which it is subject. The causeof the fire-blight, so called, I think I fully understand,ex
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . THE FIRE BLIGHT. —CRACKING OF PEARS. BY J. H. ERNST, CINCINNATI, HAVE been a learner for the last fifty years, a large por-tion of it devoted to Horticulture. My zeal hasprompted me to a close scrutiny of the various pheno-r^^^ywir ViVa^IIO* iiiena that often cross the Horticulturists path, the so- lution of which has not always been as satisfactory as is desirable. This is especially the case with the Pear, thetrees and the maladies to which it is subject. The causeof the fire-blight, so called, I think I fully understand,experience confirming the correctness of the views presentedby me on former occasions in the pages of the Horticul-turist. This summer has afiorded another opportunity for testing them. Thosewho have paid attention to the matter will probably remember that I suggested,that with the return of a wet summer, we should have the fire-blight, which seemedalmost to have disappeared for several years. This has proved so, most fatally so,in some situations destroying very fine trees. I have had much of it in my owntrees this summer — so
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