360 Report of the Horticultural Department of the 



Following- is a sketch of the weather in Niagara aud Orleans 

 counties during the blooming season 1900: 



Monday, May 13. Sunny most of the time. Very windy. 



Tuesday, May 14. Partly cloudy, cool, very windy in morn- 

 ing. Thunder heads came up at 3 p. m., and there were heavy 

 showers through the night. 



Wednesday, May 15. Cool and cloudy in morning, becoming 

 slightly warmer and sun came out in afternoon. 



Thursday, May 16. Light showers from 6:30 to S:30 a. m. 

 Cleared off at 10. Sunny with cool wind in afternoon. 



Friday, May 17. Cool and cloudy all day. 



Saturday, May 18. Cool and cloudy in morning. Sun came 

 out at 9:30, but. cold wind during reet of the day. 



Sunday, May 19. Sunny; cold northwest wind. 



Monday, May 20. Opened with a slight shower at Medina, 

 becoming sunny and a little warmer in afternoon, but wind cool. 



The first three experiments were made in the orchard of Harry 

 Jackson, Medina. This is an orchard of about twenty acres, 

 twenty-five years old, and is mostly Baldwin and Rhode Island 

 Greening, with a few Maiden Blush, Twenty Ounce and Spy 

 intermingled. It was in sod and pastured with sheep until the 

 spring of 1899, when it w^as plowed and then tilled once a week 

 through the summer. Tillage was begun the past season, but 

 was discontinued in mid-summer. The orchard was sprayed for 

 the first time in 1899, the Kedzie mixture of white arsenic and 

 sal-soda being used, and about six pounds of lime added to every 

 50 gallons of mixture. Two sprayings w^ere given; the first 

 before the blo&som-s opened, and the second w^hen the fruit had 

 set. The same treatment was given to all but a few trees, which 

 were unavoidably sprayed when in full bloom. A numerous 

 brood of canker worms w-as kept down that year by the arsenite. 

 Very few^ were seen last season (1900). A few bud moths and 

 case-bearers could be found in 1900, but not enough to do serious 

 damage. All varieties except Spy have been nearly free from 



