SPRAYING IN BLOOM * 



An Account of Laboratory and Field Experiments by the 



New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 



N. Y.; Including also the Results op Field 



Experiments by the Cornell University 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Ithacaj N. Y. 



SUMMARY. 



results of investigations by the 



CORNELL university AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



Tbe field experiments conducted by the Cornell Experiment 

 Station show no decisive results from spraying apple trees when 

 in bloom. This is probably because the year 1900 was one of 

 heavy crop and of little disease, and good or fair crops followed 

 all treatments and even no treatment. It is significant, how- 

 ever, that thorough spraying when in bloom did not seem to 

 diminish the crop. 



There was no apparent injury to the blossoms on trees sprayed 

 when in full bloom. 



RESULTS op INVESTIGATIONS 

 BY THE NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



During the season of 1900 the Station commenced an investi- 

 gation of the effect of spraying fruit trees when in bloom with 

 the mixtures commonly used in fighting insects and diseases 

 in orchards. Studies of the effect of the spray mixtures on the 



♦Reprint of B.ulletin No. 196. 



