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_iage. In orchard III, which was infested with scale, there was 
no apparent reduction in the blossoms and leaves upon the mod- 
erately infested trees. 
The lime-sulphur wash, the lime-sulphur-salt wash and the 
lime-sulphur-caustic soda wash were equally effective as insecti- 
cides. Applications of these sprays controlled the scale and with 
some slight exceptions insured the production of clean fruit. 
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE. 
Apples in storage.—In Bulletin 248 different varieties of apples 
are treated with regard to their season of ripening and keeping 
and their adaptability for storage purposes. The bulletin is 
based upon material obtained from three distinctly different 
sources: First, from storage tests made at this Station with 
fruit grown in the Station orchards; second, from men of prac- 
tical experience in handling fruit both in cold storage and in 
ordinary fruit warehouses; third, from tests made by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture in cooperation with this Station with 
numerous varieties of apples from the Station orchards stored in 
chemical cold storage. The tests which were made at this Sta- 
tion were undertaken with the primary purpose of determining 
the ordinary season of ripening and the keeping qualities of the 
different varieties which were under test in the Station orchards. 
This work brought out some results of general interest concern- 
ing the keeping of apples, worthy of publication, but which, 
when regarded from the standpoint of the general adaptability 
of the varieties to cold storage purposes, were incomplete. In 
order that a more complete account of the behavior of different 
varieties in storage might be presented than could be derived 
from the experiments at the Station, men of practical experience 
in storing apples on a large scale under commercial conditions 
were consulted and much material of practical importance was 
thus obtained: 
In 1901-2 this Station furnished over 100 varieties of apples 
to be used in cold storage tests at Buffalo under the direction of 
Profs. G. Harold Powell and 8. H. Fulton of the U. 8. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. The results of their work were first reported 
in Bulletin 48 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 8S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Much material which was thus made avail- 
