Diseased Fruit Trees

Mr. Ganzhorn, the commisioner appointed to examine the fruit trees of the city with reference to the diseases known as the yellowa in peaches and black knot in pluma, expects to finish the iuspection by the end of the week. So far he has fouñd the yellows in 130 different places withia' the city limïts, with from one to sixty-four trees in each. lic finds tliat the yellows is spreadinr with alanning rapidity, and that the only safety lies in the prompt destructicm of the diseased trees. Thatour readers may becoine a little better acquainted with their duty in this respect, we niight say that the law is very plain and explicit. Any person notified by the comtnissioners raust destroy, by fíre, the trees found to be diseased within five days from such notifleation, and fallare so to do laya tb. e in Hable to a fiue of $100 or imprisontnent in the county jnil three months, or both, at the discretiou of the court. In case the owner of trees refuses or neglects to take out and destroy diseased trees it is made the duty of the commissioner so to do, and the expense therefor must be paid by the city or township where such trees are located. The city or township can recover the money by levying the same as a regular tax npou the land. Where this law has heen lived up to and enforced the disease bas heen stayed in its ravages, and the only way to save our peach orchards is to have the law promptly obeyed. Mr. Ganzhorn also found a new disease that he thinks is even worse than the yellows, as it attacks the young as well as the old trees. With this disease the leaves curl up and wither, have red spots on them, and eventually each limb dies until the entire tree is killed.