Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California

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Pseudomonas syringae ssp. savastanoi ("Bacillus oleae") Identifier: appendixtojourna19033cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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and all are affectedwith the knot, the Nevadillo showing it in its worst form and the Mis-sion being the least injured. In this section the disease is practicallyunder control, and while the existence of the infected trees implies moreor less possibilities of its transmission to other sections, still, beingisolated as they are, the danger is reduced to a minimum. Another and more serious outbreak was reported to the Board earlyin 1901 from the Maywood Colony, in Tehama County, and AlexanderCraw, Quarantine Officer of the Board, was delegated to make aninvestigation and advise with the owners of the olive orchards there asto a course of action. In his annual report to the Board, Mr. Craw says: According to your instructions, I visited Tehama County on June3d and 4th, and investigated the reported existence of the olive-knot»(Bacillus olex) in several young orchards. With Mr. Harvey C. Stiles,I visited a number of young olive orchards, and although we found OLIVE-KNOT IN CALIFORNIA. 67
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Plate I. Olive-Knot (Bacillus olece) affecting Twigs and Leaves. 68 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. indications of the disease, there was no appearance of any virulentcases. This may be owing to the fact that the trees had been plantedwithin the year. It was the desire of a number of the orchardists tohave the disease stamped out of the county if possible, and as theyanticipated some opposition on the part of non-resident owners, I sub-mitted the matter to the Attorney-General to ascertain if the CountyHorticultural Commissioners or the State Board of Horticulture couldtake any action toward stamping this disease out of that and othercounties where it has appeared. The opinion of the Attorney-Generalis given on pages 53 to 57 inclusive, of your bulletin, HorticulturalStatutes of California. It would appear that the County HorticulturalCommissioners have power to abate such nuisances in their respectivecounties. There is nothing, however, in our statutes conferring suchpower upo

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