INDIAK^A IIonTlCULTURAL SOCIETY. 477 



Prof. Troop: We give one spraying just about the time the bud begins 

 to swell, and then another two or three weeks later. This disease depends 

 a good deal on the season. The prevalence of the dry season tends to 

 hold it in check. But I want to insist that it is all important in all plant 

 diseases to spray early. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: How does Mr. Stewart shorten, in February or 

 March? 



Mr. Stewart: Usually they run seven to eight in a stool. I leave four 

 of the most vigorous stalks, and cut back to eighteen inches. 



Dr. Wolfe: Tell us, Professor, more about anthraxnose. 



Prof. Troop: It is a fungous disease. I do not know that I can explain 

 it very clearly, but it is a fungous disease that attacks the cane during the 

 j'oung growth, and it attacks thr> leaves, causing them to wither. It looks 

 something like a rust on the leaf, and is found in little blotches on the 

 young canes, spreading until often it nearly covers the whole cane, and 

 sapping the life out of the plant and causing it to die. Not exactly like 

 rust, either, because it attacks the bark of the cane, causing dead spots on 

 the cane. It is more like blight. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: There is a disease that sometimes affects the plant 

 just as the berries arc beginning to ripen, and they die suddenly. Is that 

 blight or anthraxnose? 



Prof. Troop: That is due to anthraxnose. I should like to ask Mr. 

 Stewart if he practices and would advise growing raspberries for plants 

 and also for berries, using the same plantation for both plants and 

 berries? 



Ml Stewart: No. sir; I do not advise it. I grow for the fruit. I do 

 not try to raise plants. 



Prof. Troop: Will not your plants bear more and better fruit if you 

 cut off the tips before they take root? 



Mr. Stewart: Yes; I suppose they would. 



Mr. Morgan, of Scott County: The State horticultural societies in the 

 West, and in Missouri especially, say that the tips help to season the 

 plant. 



Mr. Ritterskamp: I have found in cutting these tips as late as the 

 latter part of October, that a little green growth lasts till in December, and 

 causes them to winter-kill. These tips are no drain on the parent plant 

 whatever. As soon as the rootlets start, they get their nourishment from 



