Linseed Oil For Pear Blight

Tlio nunibor of cases of reportcd success in the treatment ut' peai trees aifectod with tin: blight, are of euttieietu importanoe to stimuluto future experimente, Manynmedies luivc had more credit than tuey merited, simply beeauso thoy were usnd jast au iln diseasc was passfog away, and it is ble that among thu many applications of' linkeed oil, .souio coineidences of the kind may have taken place, whieh are widely reported, while failures are forgotton. But the greater the number of instanees of success, the more oonfident we becomc of the valué i f the remedy. Amoog sucoessful cases recently notieud, are those giveu by 11. Cheuwortli, of Jefferaon county, Kentucky, at a horticultural meeting. 11e hal an orchard of the leading popular sorts, which, soon aftet beginning to bear, werc attacked with blight. The diseased parta were cut away till several entire trees were epusigned to the brush lieap. He then began to use lin.seed oil. It was tried first on a Uartlctt mutilated with blight and cutting. The oil was applied with a paint brush to stem and branches, a3 high as the arm eould reaeh. New shoots sliot forth, and little bligbt was afterwards seen on this tree. Mr. C. says he has now used the oil remedy for ten years op his pear trees, and has uot lost a tree in that timo, exeept a few of little valué which he did not treat. Furtunately, there does not now appear to be opportunitiea to test the valuc of thia remedy extensively, as the blight, so prevaient a few yeara ago, has nearly passed away. It may be well to retuark, in allusion to the remedy of cutting off diseased limbo, that it o f ten entirely hiU by not cutting at least two feet below all ancos of disease.