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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



WESTERN NEW YORK FRUIT GROWERS-III. 

 Pear Scab— Grape IRot— Bordeaux Mixture, etc. 



NOTHER prominent gentleman, whose presence 

 contributes greatly to the meetings of this Society, 

 is Prof. L. H. Bailey, whose portrait we here give 

 our readers. Born at South Haven, Michigan, 

 1858, in the fruit centre of that State, he was 

 reared on a fruit farm, and thus early in life 

 became thoroughly acquainted with the prac- 

 tical side of fruit growing. In 1882 he 

 graduated from Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, after which he was fortunate enough to 

 be associated for two years with the greatest 

 of American botanists, the late Professor Asa Gray of 

 Harvard. Then for four years he was Professor of 

 Horticulture and Landscape Gardening at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College. 

 After a visit to Europe, he was appointed in 1889 to the position he still 

 holds at Ithaca as Professor of General and Experimental Horticulture at 

 Cornell University. His bulletins are the most attractively printed of any that 

 come to our table, and have a direct, practical bearing upon the work of the 

 fruit grower. His reputation is rapidly growing, because of his frequent valuable 

 publications, such as "Annals of Horticulture," "Horticulturist's Rule Book," 

 ** The Nursery Book," " Cross Breeding and Hybridizing," " American Grape 

 Training," " Field Notes on Apple Culture," " Talks Afield,' etc. We hope for 

 the pleasure of his presence at some of the meetings of our own Association in 

 the near future. 



Prof. Beach, of the Geneva Experiment Station, gave the result of his 

 experience during the past season in spraying for pear scab, and, as they are 

 quite opportune, we will give some account of his statements. 



The Bordeaux mixture was the most satisfactory liquid used ; its cost was 

 only about one-half cent a gallon, and the pecuniary profits from its use were 

 very evident when it was faithfully applied. From careful computation he 

 estimated that a profit of $50 accrued from its repeated application to one 

 hundred pear trees, thirty-five years planted: Fruit from some Seckel trees, for 

 instance, that were faithfully sprayed, sold for $6 per barrel, while that from 

 trees unsprayed averaged only 90 cents a barrel. Not only was the fruit itself 

 comparatively free of scab or deformity, but it also hung better on the trees 

 during wind storms, while the trees themselves were more vigorous and the 



