Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
What is to be the Future OF the lie
Conte Pear.

LIBERTY Co., GA, July 1.-THE gem
eral belief is and has been that the lie
Conte pear is exempt from insect depreda-
tions, as also from blight and other dis
eases incident to pear trees.
However welI-grounded this conviction
may have been IN the past the last two
seasons of my experience has not con-
firmed the supposed fact.
Previous to last season l refrained from
cultiyating the lie Conte, not being salts.
fed Of having the most desirable coil and
location and also being shy of them as a
pecuniary investment.
Last year an opportunity presented for
purchasing one hundred trees at small
cost overcame my previous reluctance. |
gave them good location and diversified
soil.
All of them lived and the first growth
of the season was large.
a short time previous to the end of the
first growth the last of May / noticed
that there was some insect eating the ten
der leaves as they unfolded. They con-
tlnued TO do so until the leaf was covered
with holes in close proximity to each
other-nearer than the holes in an ordi-
nary cover to the bottles in our pepper re-
cepticIes.
During the interim of the first and
second growth and until the second was
well underway nothing that | could de-
tect as being the depredator was to be
found.
The latter part Of the season | found
a bug, aud only one, on leaf could not
be sure it was the cause of the trouble
one season going by and no solution of the
matter.
The trees started with a vigorous
growth this year. At the same time of
the season that they We're eaten last year
they were this. After several efforts to
find the enemy l came upon bug SINH
lar to the one l saw last year. Further
search eventuated in capturing half
dozen.
They have wings. When flying they
resemble the rose bug, so called, that are
so harmful to the grape.
am not familiar with entomology, and
cannot 20 into scholarly disQuisitiOn on
that subject. ] can speak teelingly re-
speeding the financial cOnseqhences of in
sect depredatiOns, however, having had
acknowledgements experience with
them that leads me to try TO avoid invest
ments that promise disaster from that di-
rectiOn. 81
Inere Is also announcer insect JndJ APP
pears to follow in the wake of the one
have referred to, and that have within
few minutes succeeded in capturing.
Are very shy and difficult to catch. |
have two of them in the vial with the half
dozen ] have spoken of. Are about three
iOurths of an inch long.
Suck all the sap from the punctured
leaves. The leaf soon turns to powder.
A neighbOr of mine, Mr.. Thomas Dun
ham, says that the lie COnte is with him
subject to blight the first four or five
years of their grOwth-nOt after that age.
Another neighbOr, being on a call at
MIR. L. l.. Varnedoes, at Thomasville( who
is the pioneer of the lie COnte), year
ago saw a man bring some specimens OF
pear blight to Mr.. VarnedOe asking him
what was TO he done with his trees that
were in the condition of the limbs pro-
duced He was told to burn them.
The disease was declared to be intec-
tious by Mr.. NarnedOe.
If these troubles are in store ought we
not to make haste slowly!
Many man went into the culture of
oranges in Florida not having the remot-
est thought Of diseased trees and insect
pests TO contend with. Let all the facts
come to light 30 that whatever enterprise
men embark in they may know before
hand what it is reasonable for them 10 eX-
poet. il. ..