284: State Horticultural Society. 



Prof. liiirrill. — Tlial is correct. It ma}' grow upon wild crabs and 

 hawthorns. It is sometimes found upon the peach. 



BOTANY. 



(I'rof. B. M. Duggar, Columbia, Alo.) 



I think I was put upon the program that I might have an op])ortu- 

 nitv to meet vou. Your secretary knew I had not been here long enough 

 to say anything of much importance to you ; but I am certainly glad to 

 have this opportunity of meeting you at this time. I do not feel like 

 taking up your time. I will therefore be extremely brief. I have list- 

 ened with much interest to all I have heard, and especially to the statistics 

 given by INIr. Craig in regard to your products, the number of your trees, 

 etc. You know all the orchards in the State are not what they should 

 be. I want to make the orchards laboratories and hospitals. .\t .the 

 Agricultural College should be the principal laboratory of the State. The 

 college can work out certain problems, and you can work out certain 

 problems. We should make of our own orchard a supplementary labo- 

 ratory and a supplementary hospital, to study ways of dealing with bitter 

 rot, apple scab, aphis, crown gall, canker, fruit spot and all the other 

 insects and diseases you have to contend Avith. The great number of 

 these things reminds me of a remark made by a salesman of Marshal 

 Field & Co. : "We have every thing you can think of ; and what you 

 cannot think of we will send out and get." We have more diseases than 

 in the early times because more apples are grown. Then the diseases 

 were more scattered, but ' they were there, somewhere. The diseases- 

 liave travelled by all sorts of methods and they form one continuous pall 

 over the whole country. If they are not here they are on the way here, 

 and we will have to fight them sooner or later. There are two ways of 

 fighting theiti, by spraying and by finding parasites to feed upon them. 

 1 have spent days in Western New York, but with few exceptions, I have 

 not seen spraying as well done as it might be. There is no better time 

 to begin than early in the spring just as the buds are opening. This one 

 spraying will not suffice for all diseases. It will take a great many, all 

 the season. 



We must also seek to discover and to develop resistant varieties. I 

 hope to gather up all the information on this subject and make it available. 



