This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
What a patient, indefatigable man, Professor Turner is! Why, one-quarter of the difficulties he has to contend with, would wear out the patience of half the modern Jobs in the universe. What with the curculio, the grape-rot and the pear, apple, and quince blight, he must have a time of it! out of all which, I most heartily wish him a safe deliverance. His locality seems to be rife in such evils.
The whole pear-growing community are under great obligations to Prof. T. for his plain and truthful notes on the fire, or sun-blight. His points, no doubt, are well taken - for that locality, if not for others. A specific may possibly be found for this terrible malady) and if investigation will do it, he is the man to ascertain it. The cause of the disease-* for disease it is, no doubt - must first be ascertained. That accomplished, one half the battle is won, and a remedy will not be long in the discovery; but whether of easy application, is another question. As in the case of the curculio, it may be more expensive in the application than the disease itself; but it will be a consolation, at least, to know that we have a remedy.
As to the extirpation of the curculio by the frosts killing the fruit, I have my doubts. If there is no fruit to sting, the curculio will live, and propagate his kind elsewhere. I fear they will always be on hand whenever our trees are in bearing.
 
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