536 XEW JEKSEY AGRICrLrTRAL COLLEGE 



intorvciiina- period. The conditions found ou the two dates are 

 recorded as follows: 



Tkee 1 — Mariana Plum. August 8th, condition good, growing 

 well, scales very scarce, October 20th, very free from scale and in 

 good condition. 



Tkee 2 — Yellow Transparent Apple. August Sth, very free 

 from scale and gTowing well. Quite a few leaf hoppers — nymphs 

 said adults — and almost every leaf shows the effect of their work 

 by the discolored upper surface. October 20th, a very little set- 

 ting of scale ; the leaves, which to a large extent remain, show 

 leaf-lio])per injury to a marked extent. 



Tree o — Blach Tartarian Cherry. August Sth. condition very 

 satisfactory. October 20th, in fine, thrifty condition. 



Tkee 7 — Champion Peach. August Sth. lo(^kiug well and very 

 free from scale; the thinned fruit developing nicely. October 

 20th, apparently very clean ; on a few of the leaves near the trunk 

 were signs of red spider and some specimens were yet present. 



Tkee S — Grimes' Golden Pippin. August Sth, nuiking a good 

 gTowth, and very free from scale. Leaves badly discolored by leaf 

 lioppers. October 20th, leaf-hopper injury very apparent on most 

 of the leaves; very slight setting of scales on such branches as I 

 was able to examine. 



Tree 15 — Japan Golden Russet Pear. August Sth, was in 

 _g-ood condition, making good growth, very free from scale and 

 with plenty of fruit. October 20th, plenty of ripening fruit; 

 enough to break a couple of limbs ; very little, if any, scale. 



Tkee 10 — Japan Golden Russet Pear — Same record as for the 

 preceding. 



Tkee 17 — Trellised Peadi. August Sth, not particularly 

 thrifty; all of the fruit rotted; plenty of old scale covering, but 

 very few living insects. October 20th, scale infestation very 

 slight; red spider present on some of the leaves. 



Tkee IS — Vermont Beauty Pear. August Sth, doing fairly 

 Avell, with a light set of fruit; while numy of the pears are clean, 

 there is a little setting of scale on some around the blossom end 

 and quite a sprinkling of fresh sets on the tree. October 20th, 

 leaves were about all off and there was a scattering "infestation, 

 including some fresh sets; some of the scurfy covering of last 

 year's infestatiou killed I)y the spr.iv was still present. 



