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which carriages took the party through Como Park, thence by way 4 
of Summit avenue to the delightful outlook at Indian Mound Park. © 
Minneapolis was reached again about 7 p. m.,and farewells were . 3 aay 
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spoken by many of the visitors who were obliged to hurrytotheir — 
distant homes, though quite a number were able to participate in 
the excursions arranged for Saturday to Lake Minnetonka or to the 
summer meeting of the State Horticultural Society at St. Anthony 
Park, : 
The next annual meeting of the association will be held at Detroit: 
Mich. 
A REVIEW OF APPLE BLIGHT. 
CLARENCE WEDGE, ALBERT LBA. 
All of our horticulturists will readily agree that blight is the most 
destructive as well as the most insidious and erratic of all the or- 
chard diseases that infest this region. So far as we can learn, it was 
for some years almost unknown among the early orchards of Min- 
nesota, and some of the orchards of Manitoba seem as yet to have 
escaped its visitation. Asa persistent enemy of pear culture, it has 
long been known in the eastern states, but in that section itis sel- 
dom or never severely injurious to the apple, and it is only as we 
approach the dryer andcolder portion of the Mississippi valley, that 
the disease becomes generally fatal to the pear and seriously injur- 
ious to the apple. 
While our varieties of the apple and crab differ widely in their 
susceptibility to its attack, it is folly for any one to state that any 
variety is “blight proof,” as all known varieties of the apple and 
pear, as well as the native crab, thorn apple, and mountain ash, are 
known to have been affected by it. 
From its nature as a microscopic plant, living within the tissues of 
the tree and propagated by spores that float in the air, it is and in all 
probability will be an exceedingly difficult disease to meet with any — 
effective and practical remedy. To attempt to combat it with any 
spray or wash, such as is used for aphis, scab or like enemies that 
work upon the surface of bark, leaf or fruit, would evidently be an 
utterly futile and absurd method of reaching a disease whose first 
visible symtoms show that it has already fastened itself upon the 
hidden tissues of the plant. We have heard of so many remedies, 
some of them verging upon the superstitious, proposed for this dis- 
ease by those utterly ignorant of its nature and based upon the 
most slender experience and doubtful results, that we wish to say 
emphatically that any practical remedy that promises a reasonable 
mitigation of its ravages will be heralded by the scientific world as 
a discovery rivaling the work of the immortal Pasteur, and that 
when we have effectively circumvented the visible and tangible 
curculio, gouger, aphis, leaf hopper and mosquito the time may be 
ripe for active efforts to discover a “cure all” for the blight. 
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