362 Journal of Agriciiltitre. [8 June, 1907. 



DESCRIPTION OF APPLE. 



James Lang, Har court. 



Sturmer Pippin. 



Fruit abo\e medium size, uliout tliree indies in diameter at tlie widest 

 part, and two- and three-fjuarter inches high ; roundish and flattened nar- 

 rowing towards the eye. Stalk about three-quarters of an inch long, in- 

 seited in a round deep cavity line witli russet. Eye closed set in a 

 shallow irregular basin, sometimes with five prominent angles. Skin 

 green becoming vellow as it matures, and dull brown on the side next the 

 sun dotted and netted with russet. Flesh yellow, crisp, and juicy. Tree 

 is a good grower and makes a fairly large tree ; crops well and keeps a 

 long time; in season from March till October. 



This is a good export apple for late shipments, and has a good reputa- 

 tion in England as one of the best apples of its season. Hogg savs " Tht^ 

 Sturmer Pippin was raised 1>\ Mr. Dillistone, a nur.servman at Sturmer, 

 near Haverfield, in Suffolk, and was obtainerl \)\ impregnating the Ribstone 

 with the pollen of Nonpareil." 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BLACK SPOT OF APPLE. 



D. Mc Alpine , Ve get able Pailiol agist. 



To improve upon existing methods in the treatment of disease is alway.? 

 a laudable object and if cheapness and efificacv can be combined with 

 simplicity, there is a decided gain in the use of such means. It is now a 

 well established fact that Bordeaux mixture is a satisfactorv preventive for 

 Black Spot in apples and pears, but there is no reason whv other sub- 

 stances should not be used, if they can be shown to be equally effective 

 and cheaper. In 1905, I was requested to test Little's fluid dip as a 

 spray for Black Spot and the results showed that trees spra\ed with this 

 dip had less absolutely clean fruit than the trees which had been left 

 unsprayed. Notwithstanding such a decidedlv unfavorable result, Cooper 

 and Nephews requested that a trial shoiild be made of their fluid sheep dip 

 for the same purpose. Accordingly I arranged with Mr. Hatfield to have 

 the test made in his orchard at Box Hill on selected trees of the Yates 

 variety, of about the same size and age and as nearly equal as possible 

 in every respect. Cooper's fluid sheep dip was used as a sprav in com- 

 parison with Bordeaux mixture and Copper soda and trees alongside were 

 left unsprayed to serve as a check. It was suggested that a strength of 

 I gallon of fluid to 250 gallons water should be used for spraving and a 

 weaker solution of i gallon of fluid to 300 gallons of water was also tried. 

 The spraying took place in the beginning of October, when the blossom 

 buds were hardly showing colour and thus a little earlier than usual. 



