A REVIEW OF APPLE BLIGHT. 271 
A reasonable care when choosing the varieties and location of the 
orchard is the best and only way of avoiding !oss from this disease 
that is known today or likely to be known for many years to come 
In low, sheltered locations, especially in alluvial subsoils, our best 
varieties will occasionally suffer severely. On high, airy locations 
with clay or limestone Subsoils, and on the cool northern slopes, 
some bad blighters may be tolerated and prove reasonably healthy 
and profitable. But ina section so favorable to the development of 
blight as the greater share of Minnesota, its sporiferous nature and 
the fact that one unhealthyindividual is continually harboring and 
giving out the contagion and in blighting years is very likely to be 
the center of severe damage, should never be forgotton. 
The apple and crab list recommended by our society contains 
nothing but what resists blight to a reasonable degree, but among 
them the following may be said to be exceptionally free. Duchess, 
Patten’s Greening, Okabena, Peerless, Anisim, Christmas, Virginia, 
Minnesota and Briar Sweet. 
Blighting kinds that, like the Yellow Transparent or Antonovka, 
are especially desirable from their extreme earliness or good qnality 
- of fruit, need not be altogether discarded but should be planted in 
a separate orchard at a distance from the main orchard. 
Inclosing, permit a few words of caution: Do not condemn a va- 
riety because for one season it has blighted severely with you and 
in your vicinity. Our best varieties occasionally do so. 
Do not condemn a variety because it has blighted to death as a 
very young tree; the same amount of blight ona large tree would 
scarcely be noticed. 
Do not sound forth your fine new seedling or promising new va- 
riety as blight proof because it has stood well in your own orchard 
while other kinds were injured. Many of our meanest blighters 
are standing here and there in just that deceptive fashion. 
And, finally, do not plant a pear of any kind in Minnesota soil, un- 
_less you are duly fortified in spirit, and callous of heart; for, how- 
‘ever healthy it may be as a yourg tree as soon and as surely as it 
approaches maturity and puts forth its first generous effort to repay 
your care, will it fall an easy and complete victim to this its ancient 
and hereditary foe. 
Mr. Gibbs: I have believed for a great many years that in 
setting out an orchard of trees of varieties which are known as 
blighters—those trees that blight when standing by themselves, 
like the Transcendant—if put in a favorable position, prefer- 
ably on an elevation, there need not be much trouble with the 
blight, and my experience in the last twelve years has con- 
firmed that theory. I have not time to discuss the question 
fully. Idid not have any trouble with the Yellow Transpar- 
ant, and I should put it No. 1 in my list of planting in a good 
situation. 
