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whether it be by green manures, or the addition of barnyard compost, or lime 

 and ashes, only keep feeding constantly. 



Mr. Stronfi^. — Will some one tell me abont rust on berry bushes, and what is 

 good for it. 



Prof. Beal. — The rust which we see on our blackberry bushes is a fungoid 

 growth. I have seen it on the wild bushes as well as the cultivated ones. It 

 gives the plants a yellow appearance and stunts the growth. The only effectual 

 remedy that I know is the one you give to that other kind of yellows in the 

 peach, — dig out the bushes infested and burn them up root and branch. 



Mr. Wigglesworth. — I agree with Mr. Beal in this matter exactly. The rust 

 with me is more common on the Kittatinny than on the Lawton. I believe the 

 way to deal with it is to remove and burn as soon as it appears in a patch. It 

 seems worst on wet soil. I suj^pose that if left any length of time it proga- 

 gates in some manner rapidly. 



Prof. Beal. — Yes, a little later tlie little spores which answer to seeds — so 

 minute as to be invisible to the naked eye — will fly in every direction, and those 

 that fall on the right place for them to develop will grow, producing other plants 

 iu vast numbers. I say plants, for this rust is among the lowest forms of plant 

 life. 



A paper was read from the pen of Dr. Owen, Secretary of the Adrian Horti- 

 cultural Society, giving a thorough description of the appearance of the Baile^ 

 orchard, near Adrian, which has become notorious from the work of the canker 

 worm in it, which we give in full. 



THE CANKEK WOKM IN LENAWEE COUNT T. 



Yesterday, in company with Artemus Sigler, I visited what is known in this 

 section as the Bailey orchard, which has attracted considerable attention the 

 past two years, and especially the past month, from the devastation of what we 

 call the canker worm, and that the injury is so complete and so alarmingly on 

 the increase. I inclosed some worms in a box and sent yon on Saturday, the 

 9tli, for your inspection and that of Prof. Cook, thinking possibly it would be 

 of interest to your readers. You will notice there are two kinds of worms, dif- 

 ferent in size and color, and averaging from half an inch to one inch in length 

 — one of a dark color and the other lighter and the largest of the two. The 

 orchard is located about three miles north of this city and contains three 

 thousand trees ; about two thousand were planted twenty years ago, six or seven 

 hundred five years later, and the balance are older. Trees planted when the 

 country was quite new. The soil is quite sandy and the trees planted too close 

 together, being about one hundred to the acre, except the oldest part, which I 

 think are twenty-four feet apart. The trees planted twenty years ago were low 

 heads, and being so close, were together in the tops as soon as fruiting was 

 fairly established, and for tlie past few years the ground has been densely 

 shaded. I have watched this part of the orchard, as well as those planted since, 

 from the day of the planting, and the growth has been unexceptionably good, 

 and till last year the fruiting has been quite up to the average, but no sunshine 

 could reach the soil. In passing through it yesterday it looked like the valley 

 of death, not a green leaf to be seen, and presents the appearance as though 

 a fire had passed through it. A few trees in the northeast corner, as well as 

 some on the northwest, have as yet escaped the ravages, but probably niue- 

 tenths of the whole have only skeleton leaves — like the branch I sent you on 



