The Quinck in Western New York. 



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Happil3^ this fungus is readily held at bay by energetic spray- 

 ing with Bordeaux mixture This has been proved time and 

 again by various experimenters, but in order to bring the subject 

 home by a test upon a commercial scale amongst our fruit-grow- 

 ers themselves, I this year selected the orchard of Col. H. 

 Bowen, at Medina, in Orleans county, for experiment. This is 

 an orchard in full bearing, comprising Orange quinces, but which 

 has been in sod for several years. The trees are healthy, but 

 moss-grown, and the crops have been indifferent because the fruit 

 is usually t-mall and more or less scabby and it has not been 



abundant. The orchard 

 had never been sprayed, 

 and the owner was not 

 convinced that spraying 

 was necessary, 

 although he was 

 anxious that the 



experiment be tried. 

 The plantation, 

 therefore, afforded 

 an excellent opportunity 

 to discover what value 

 resides in spra5dng, inas- 

 much as there was no fer- 

 -].— Black-spot of the Quince (ni.iural size). tilizing, tillage, or other 

 circumstance to complicate the result.* 



It was very late in the .reason (June 25) when the first applica- 

 tion was made, for at that time the fruits were as large as the end 

 of one's thumb — an inch long — and the leaves were already badly 

 marked with the small brown spots of the leaf-blight. In fact, I 

 thought that it was too late to obtain any results from the spray. 

 Yet the Bordeaux mixture (6 lbs. sulphate copper, 4 lbs. lime, 40 



* The spraying experiments made upon quinces in the University gardens 

 will be reported on in a later bulletin. 



