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Either article is cheap, costing from six to eight cents a pound at the drug 
stores. The result of the sulphur with me has been, in'78 not a twig of 
blight in my entire orchard. 
In ’79 the blight was the most destructive ever known in this section. I 
think I am safe in saying that there was not an orchard nor a yard contain- 
ing two or more Transcendents that were not affected bv the blight. 
Many trees were entirely killed, yet in my 100 acres of orchard, and having 
Transcendents in every block of orchard, as many have been set for top 
grafting, there was no blight till late in the season, the rain having cleaned 
the trees of the wash, the tops of a few trees began to blight, and I dusted 
them while wet with sulphur and lime, which stopped the blight. 
Trees not Affected with Blight, Soil, Etc. 
There is a great difference in varieties blighting. The Duchess of Olden- 
burg, Wealthy, Tetofsky and Haas, are amongst the hardy varieties least 
liable to blight. The Duchess seldom, if ever, blighting enough to injure. 
‘The crabs or hybrids as a rule are more liable to blight. Among those 
least affected are the Orange, Beecher’s Red, Conicle, Gideon’s Florence, 
(No. 3), and Early Strawberry. Those most liable to blight are General 
Grant, Transcendent, Hesper Rose, Hyslop, &c. 
In location and soils, taking the years together, I see not much difference. 
Subject always to the following: Any location, condition of soil or cultiva- 
tion that is likely to stimulate a fast or an unnatural growth is likely to 
cause trees to blight. And wherever the conditions are such that the 
growth is the most checked or retarded, the blight is least likely to occur. 
As root pruning, which stops entirely the growth of the tree, also entirely 
checks the blight. So the seeding down of an orchard has some influence 
in checking the blight; yet would not recommend root pruning nur seed- 
ing down for the blight, except in extreme cases, but use the wash once or 
twice a season, and if it still continues or appears, dust the trees with dry 
lime and sulphur. 
E. B. JORDON. 
ROCHESTER, MINN., Jan. 20, 1880. 
Mr. Dart moved that the paper be filed for publication, which 
motion was carried. 
PROF. BUDD ON APPLE-TREE BLIGHT. 
The Secretary. Ihave here Prof. Budd’s article on blight, Col- 
lege Quarterly, and if it is the desire of the soceity to pursue the 
subject, L’ll read it. 
Many expressing the desire to hear it, the secretary read the 
article, which was as follows: 
The unusual prevalence of this disease the current season biings us many 
queries as to its cause. Correspondents west of the divide report extended 
and ruinous losses in nursery and orchard. For instance, L. D. Frost, of 
Cass county, reports his two-year old nursery trees ‘‘ looking as if fire had run 
