THE SOUTH HAVEN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. iOo 



fruit by some varieties of apples and pears showed that the over-blooming 

 and setting of fruit was also a great tax on a tree, which could best be removed 

 by increasing the wood growth of the tree by manuring, cultivating, and 

 pruning. He cited some varieties of apples which overbore one year so as to 

 have none the next, and on trees where he thinned one limb or one-half the 

 tree, that portion bore tlie next. By thinning he could have large, handsome, 

 high-flavored fruit every year. The only interference he had in carrying out 

 his plan was the codling moth, — the best destruction of which was made the 

 special discussion for the next meeting. 



THE RUST. 



South Havex, June 27, 1874. 



Alfred Fitch brought in two bottles of bugs, among which were the apple 

 curcnlio. 



C. H. "Wigglesworth thought that the rust in the raspberries and blackberries 

 might be induced by planting on wet ground, whi«h were liable to be heaved 

 out in winter, as he had observed that those vines affected with the rust had 

 comparatively few roots. 



In answer to this, it was suggested that the rust, attacking the foliage, would 

 lessen the need of roots and cause them to waste away. If the rust was devel- 

 oped in and conveyed with plants, and carried to neighboring plants by the 

 wind or in contact with our clothes, it is desirable we should know it. He 

 bought his plants first affected at South Bend, Indiana, and he had carefully 

 cut them out and burned them. Its first indication is in a sickly yellow ap- 

 pearance, with mildewed spots on the under side of the leaves; afterwards the 

 new shoots are fine and narrow, barren, and die out. He had seen none on the 

 red raspberries. 



President Phillips remarked that it was believed by some that the disease 

 "was conveyed to neighboring plants by the dust of the rust, and would recom- 

 mend»its removal as soon as seen. 



THE YELLOWS. 



South Havex, July 3, 1874. 



A large attendance was present at the regular meeting of the Pomological 

 Society, to ascertain what they could by comparing one another's experience 

 in regard to the disease known as the yellows in the peach. 



Mr. Cheesebro asked for a description of the yellows, to enable him to detect 

 it in an orchard. 



The secretary replied that the first appearance of the yellows was usually 

 seen in the premature ripening (some two weeks in advance) of one or more 

 peaches on the tree, which peaches were unusually high colored and spotted 



