New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 173 



is safe to say that it is not due to any parasitic organism and con- 

 sequently it is difficult to understand how spraying can have any 

 effect upon it. Nevertheless, successful results from spraying 

 with Bordeaux mixture have been reported by Lamson^ and a 

 correspondent at Spencerport reports concerning the disease, 

 " about as usual except where liberally sprayed with Bordeaux 

 mixture nearly exempt." Wortmann'' and Zschokke,^ two 

 European investigators, believe the spots to result in some way 

 from the loss of water from the affected parts. 



Twig Blight or Fire Blight {Bacillus amylovonis (Burr.) 

 De T'oni). — This disease has been scarce. At Kiplcy, Chautau- 

 qua Co., we saw a bearing tree with many dead twigs; at Vine 

 Vallev, Yates Co., a few trees of different varieties were con- 

 siderably injured by it; and in a nursery at Orleans, Ontario Co., 

 it killed a few trees. Only six correspondents mention the dis- 

 ease at all and of these but one (Bluff Point, Yates Co.) reports, 

 it doing serious damage. 



How the Fruit is Keeping. — This question was answered by 

 64 persons, 20 of whom report apples keeping well; 21 fairly 

 well and 15 poorly. Four expressed the opinion that apples 

 ripened prematurely, while the remaining four gave the follow- 

 ing answers: "Baldwins good, Greenings poor;" " Baldwins very 

 well; King, Spy and Greening not very well;" -"Baldwins 

 look well; Spys are not keeping well." From these reports it 

 appears that up to December 1, the time the reports were made, 

 the apple crop as a whole was in about average condition. • 



As we have made no investigation of stored fruit we are unable 

 to state what fungi have been chiefly concerned in the rotting of 

 apples this season. Bitter rot, Glwosporium fnictlgeniim, is re- 

 ported to have been unusually common. 



"Lamson, H. H. N. H. Agi-. Exp. Sta. Buls. 45 and 46. 



'T\"ortmann, Jul. Ueber die sogenannten "Stippen" der Aepfel. Landtp, 

 Jahrb., 21: G63-6T5. 



'Zschokke, A. Stippigwerden der Aepfel. Landiv. Jahrb. d. Schiceiz., 

 11: 192. 



