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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL aOCIETY. 



Under the above conditions after June loth watch all your trees 

 for blight, and if you notice that the ends of any of the limbs look 

 drooping or wilty, take your knife and raise up the bark, and if 

 the inner bark looks black cut the limb off as far down as the bark 

 looks black where raised up from the wood. Sometimes the inner 

 bark may be black a ways down a limb and of a browixish color 

 for a ways farther down the limb, and in such cases it is not neces- 

 sary to cut tlie limb off down below the brown color portion, as 



CHAS. W. SPICKERMAN, EXCELSIOR. 



many times the portion of the limb that has a brownish inner bark 

 will recover. 



Now as to the remedy : Take a knife and slit the bark open on 

 the under side of the blighted limb, commencing where the limb is 

 cut off or, if not off, where the inner bark ceases to be black, 

 and run the cut down the full length of the limb to a big limb or to 

 the body of the tree. If the tree shows much blight, slit the bark 

 open down the body of the tree to the ground, and in very severe 

 cases I would open the bark on two sides of the tree, being careful 

 and not have two cuts come close together. If the blight shows on 



