372 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. ■* 



ings. If this remedy fulfills the expectations concerning it, the dread 

 scale will be more readily overcome. It is predicted, however, that 

 the disease will be less effective in dry than in moist climates. — Agri- 

 cultural Epitomist. 



Dr. Cotton said that Mr. 0. D. Elliott had sprayed most of his or- 

 charfl with a one-fourth of an ounce of chrystal carbolic acid in 50 gal- 

 lons of water for bitter rot with good success. The spray was applied 

 in July or August, and parts of the orchard not sprayed suffered with 

 bitter rot, while the part treated was comparatively free from the dis- 

 ease. If this remedy continues to prevent the bitter rot it will be 

 worth thousands of dollars to the apple orchards of Bencon county. — 

 Report from Benton County, Ark., Horticultural Society, December 

 1897. 



STRAWBERRY RUST. 



This is a fungous disease which injures some varieties more seri- 

 ously than others. Most of the larger strawberry growers in Vermont 

 avoid serious difficulty from rust by frequent resetting of their beds,, 

 taking only two crops of fruit, then plowing up. Where they keep 

 them longer and the rust begins to trouble, the best preventive is 

 spraying with Bordeaux mixture — the same remedy as used for potato 

 blight. Spray at least three times, once as soon as convenient after the 

 berries are harvested, again later in the summer as the new plants are 

 well developed, and again the following spring before fruit is set. If 

 disease is very bad I should advise two sprayings in addition to the 

 above, one more in the fall and one earlier in the spring, making five 

 altogether. In addition, it is a good practice to mow the bed after 

 picking, and rake off and burn the old leaves, which destroys many of 

 the rust spores. — L. R. Jones, Vermont Experiment Station. 



BORERS. 



In writing to The American Agriculturist on " Winter Work 

 Against Insects," Professor J. B. Smith calls attention to the fact that 

 many borers pass the winter as larvfe either in • dead or dying twigs 

 that remain on the trees or have fallen to the ground. All dead and 

 dying wood should, therefore, be removed from orchards in the win- 

 ter. Almost every dead or dying branch contains borers in some 

 stage, and these should find their way to the brush-heap or into the 



