3G8 Eeport of the Horticultuual Departmext of the 



center blossoms were open on the south side of each tree, five 

 trees were sprayed. Weather cool and cloudy at time of spray- 

 ing, but sun came out bright at 10 o'clock. (2) Five more trees 

 were sprayed Monday, May 21, when Mr. Hopkins judged them 

 to be in full bloom. One hundred gallons of Bordeaux were 

 used on these five trees. The weather was sunny at this spray- 

 ing. (3) A third lot of fiA'e trees was sprayed Tuesday, June 12, 

 when the fruit had set. 



Notes on the setting of fruit were taken then and again 

 August 21: 



Table VIII. — Fkuit-Setting of R. I. Geeexing Apple Teees Speayed at 



DiFFEBENT TiMES. 



No constant difference. At picking time no differences couM 

 be detected, in quantity or quality of fruit, between any of the 

 lots. 



Experiment 8, at F. B. Freeman's, Middleport. Mr. Freeman 

 has about twenty-five acres of bearing orchard. The one in which 

 the experimental trees are located is in clean tillage. It has been 

 sprayed for six years. The trees are from twenty-five to thirty 

 years old and are of the Twenty Ounce variety. These trees have 



