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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The York Imperial is highly commended 

 by H. E. Van Deman as a commercial 

 apple. He advises Ben Davis as most profit- 

 able for Colorado, and York Imperial as 

 second. 



A Gloria Mundi Apple was recently shown 

 at the Indiana State Fair in 1899, weighing 

 23j^ ounces, and measuring 16 inches in cir- 

 cumference. This is claimed to be the largest 

 apple in the world. 



Gooseberry Mildew is very resistent to 

 fungicides, and so far satisfactory results from 

 treatment have not been obtained. Close, of 

 Geneva, has been trying Bordeaux, lysol, for- 

 malin and potassium sulphide, and in each case 

 the latter substance has given the best results. 

 The Bordeaux mixture seemed comparatively 

 valueless, though very early applications gave 

 some favorable results. 



Crude Petroleum has been tried with con- 

 siderable success in the state of Pennsylvania as 

 a remedy for the San Jose Scale. If this sub- 

 stance is effective, it is much cheaper than 

 whale oil soap, and might perhaps be purchased 

 in large lots for fruit growers' use in spraying 

 their orchards, at wholesale rates. At the Pet- 

 rolia mills crude oil has been quoted as low as 

 $1.65 per barrel. 



John B. Smith, of the New Jersey experi- 

 ment station, has also given two season's trial 

 to this substance and gives the result in Bulletin 

 138. He says that a thorough application of 

 this crude petroleum to dormant trees com- 

 pletely destroys the Scale without perceptible 

 injury to the trees themselves. He has tried it 

 on all varieties of orchard fruits except cherries, 

 and upon some bush fruits, such as currants, 

 gooseberry and raspberry bushes, with good 

 results in killing the Scale, while the greasy 

 brown coating of the bark which results and 



