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IX.— Maple Rank (P). Originating in 

 Ontario. A strong healthy grower, good runner, 

 making wide matted row. The fruit is large, rich 

 dark crimson and very firm. The shape is good, it 

 is one of the finest, and thus should be a good 

 shipper. If it grows to be as good in other places 

 as with us, it will take a first place. It is beinj. 

 tested at several places North, South, East anc 

 West, before being offered to the public. 



E. B. Stevenson. 



Experimenter in Strawberries, 

 Lowvilie, Ont. 



Fig. 790.— Maple Bask. 



FRUIT ROT. 



rHE rotting of the ripening fruit of cherries, plums, peaches and other 

 fruits, frequently causes serious loss to the fruit grower. A fungus of 

 the genus Monilia attacks the fruit and causes it to rot. The rotted 

 fruit afterwards becomes covered with a gray powdery mould and 

 frequently hangs to the tree till the next summer, in a dried or mum- 

 mied form. The gray powder consists of the germs of the disease, 

 ^"' which may be washed by rains, blown by winds, or carried by insects 

 to other parts of the tree, thus spreading the disease. The mummy fruits 

 carry the disease over from one season to the next, and therefore the col- 

 lecting and burning of these fruits appears to be a good sanitary measure. The 

 fungus begins its attacks early in the spring, often destroying many of the blos- 

 soms. These decaying blossoms are blown about by the wind, thus spreading 

 the infection. It also attacks the leaves and young twigs, but it is on the fruit 

 that it commonly does the most damage. It attacks the fruit at any stage of its 

 development, but spreads most rapidly when the cherries are nearly ready to 

 pick. With warm, moist weather at this time, the disease spreads very rapidly, 

 often nearly destroying a crop in a few days. Many of the cherries rot and fall 

 to the ground while others dry, and hang to the branches over winter, as stated 

 above. 



Remedy. — As in the case of the leaf blight described below, we are only 

 prepared to offer suggestions as to the orchard treatment against the fruit rot, 

 as follows : — 



1. Just before the blossoms open apply Bordeaux mixture. 



2. Just after the blossoms fall apply Bordeaux mixture as before, with the 

 addition of one ounce of Paris green for eighteen gallons of the mixture. The 

 Paris green is used against the curculio which causes wormy cherries. 



3. Make a third application from ten to fourteen days after the second 

 using Bordeaux mixture and Paris green as before. — New York Exp. Station. 



