Page Eighteen 



BETTER FRUIT 



June, 1922 



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Pear and Apple Blight In 

 Montana 



( Continued from page 1 3 ) 



Resistant Varieties — As already indi- 

 cated, there is a great difference between 

 varieties of apples and pears as to their sus- 

 ceptibility or resistance to this disease. 

 Trees may be resistant in either of two 

 respects or in both. First, if the blight 

 germs get into the blossoms or the tender 

 bark, a natural resistance of the trees may 

 prevent them from getting a start in many 

 cases. Second, if the disease gets a start in 

 the blossoms, the leaves, or the tender 

 shoots, it will in some susceptible varieties 

 spread down into the bark of the larger 

 branches, trunks or even roots; while in 

 other varieties more resistant, it will die out 

 early in the season, forming only a "twig 

 blight." This kind of resistance is the 

 more important. 



Nothing is so essential in fighting this 

 disease as to avoid planting certain suscep- 

 tible varieties, which are almost certain to 

 be killed if attacked, and to pull out or top- 

 work those already growing. It would be 

 impossible and quite useless to list here all 

 known varieties of apples and pears and 

 state the degree of susceptibility of each, 

 for most of them have no commercial 

 value in the state. Our fruit growers, 

 however, may find here listed most of those 

 varieties that have a commercial value in 

 one or more important sections, and they 

 should be guided by it in the setting of 

 new orchards. 



Class A. — Relatively resistant, /. «., the 

 blight seldom runs far in limbs more than 

 one-half inch in diameter, and usually 

 makes only a twig blight: Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, Gano, Ben Davis, Rome 

 Beauty, Wagener, Stayman, Winesap, 

 Thompkins King. 



Class B. — Moderately resistant, ;. e., the 

 disease seldom runs far in limbs more than 

 three-fourths inch in diameter, and usually 

 makes onlv a twig blight: Mcintosh Red, 

 Jonathan, Delaware Red, Grimes Golden, 

 Wealthy, Baldwin, Northwest Greening. 



Class C. — Moderately susceptible, i. e., 

 the disease frequently penetrates the smaller 

 limbs (an inch or less in diameter), but 

 seldom the main limbs or the trunk: Yel- 

 low Transparent, Fameuse (Snow), Spit- 

 zenberg, Delicious, Whitney crab, Martha 

 crab, Hyslop crab. 



Class D. — Verv susceptible, i. e., many 

 infections may appear in a tree; the blight 

 extends rapidly into the larger limbs and 

 trunks and the tree is usually killed: Alex- 

 ander, Wolf River, Transcendent crab, 

 McMahon, Winter Banana. 



IN CONSIDERING the foregoing lists 

 the grower should understand that 

 classes A, B, and C, rank quite close 

 together and that any of those varieties can 

 probably be grown successfully even in 

 blight-infested districts of the state; while 



