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The curculio is difficult to fight; much more so than iu the case of 

 the plum. It makes the wormy cherries. These do not drop from the 

 tree like the plum, but hang on and ripen with the good cherries. It is 

 often difficult to distinguish them from the good ones, till you eat them. 

 Cherry trees are usually too large to jar successfully. Spraying does 

 not pay, rarely reaching fifty per cent of them. Birds can keep these 

 insects in check. 



Maj. Holsinger. — Have you any trouble with the peach borer in 

 the cherry ? We have had to worm our cherry trees this year as well 

 as our peach trees. 



Prof. Stedman. — Use the same remedies as for apple borers. 



]Sr. F. Murray. — We have cherry trees where the puoltry has con- 

 tinual access. The cherries are almost entirely perfect. I think this 

 is the practical way to control these insects. 



Question : — Our cherry trees are dying of some fungus disea-e 

 which commences at the root, then extends up the trunk eight or ten 

 inches. On examination I have found between the bark and sap a 

 fungus growth which is about one-twelfth of an inch thick. At first it 

 is white, but afterward changes to a brownish yellow. Can it be 

 caused from the stock upon which the bud is made? If so what stock 

 is best to use ? Is there any known remedy for the disease ? If some- 

 thing is not done soon to check it, we shall have to abandon cherry 

 planting in Callaway county. J. H. Mariox^ 



Fulton, Mo. 



J. C. Whitten. — The brown rot in cherries is the same as that in 

 plums and peaches. This has not been very serious since I have been in 

 the state. It is difficult to fight it by spraying. Bordeaux mixture 

 turns the foliage yellow. If you could destroy the rotten fruits or re- 

 move them from the orchard it would lessen the brown rot for the next 

 season. I can not say what is the disease that Mr. Marion refers to in 

 his letter, though I think it may be the same as the apple root rot. 



