HORTICULTURAL BULLETINS. 293 



PEARS (Pyrus communis). 



This second year of excessive drouth has proved even more severe than the pre- 

 ceding one, while even during the intervening dorrnant period the supply of moist- 

 ure was by no means adequate. This deficiency must be supposed, at least to 

 some extent, to have affected both wood and fruit growth. Quite possibly, during 

 both seasons, it partially prevented the development of fruit buds and thus partially 

 or wholly delayed the fruiting of some varieties. Be this as it may, the trees have 

 continued in a healthy and vigorous condition, and a considerable number of varie- 

 ties have matured more or less fruit. 



There have been no fungous attaclis upon pear trees except in the case of two 

 trees of Vicar, in which the blight of last year compelled their entire removal last 

 spring, together with one or two adjacent trees, the disease in which was not dis- 

 covered until the planting season last spring. 



The larvae of the codlin moth were so effectually subdued by the sprays applied 

 to the first brood that a treatment for a second brood was deemed unnecessary; 

 but, too late, it became obvious that either the remaining progeny of the first brood 

 or an immigration from outside had sufficed to largely colonize the scattered prod- 

 uct of the newly fruiting trees. 



The slug (Eriocampa cerasi) appeared upon the pear at the usual season, but 

 yielded readily to the usual spray of tobacco decoction. 



The three or four trees which were supposed to have been overloolied in the pre- 

 liminary spray of the spring of 1894, and which apparently for that reason were 

 afflicted last season Avith scab (Fusicladium dendriticum) were, together with the 

 entire plantation, thoroughly treated, April 1 to 6, with the strong copper sulphate 

 solution, with very satisfactory results. 



May 3 and 4, a second treatment was applied, using a solution of one pound of 

 copper sulphate in 250 gallons of water. 



May 20, a spray was applied, consisting of four pounds of copper sulphate, nine 

 pounds of lime, and two and one half ounces of Paris green in forty gallons of 

 water. 



June 1, the above was repeated as a remedy for the codlin moth. 



June 24, the slug having appeared, they were treated with a strong dose of 

 tobacco water, which was thoroughly effective. 



The following table includes such varieties of pear as have shown bloom and 

 fruit, one or both, during the current year. 



