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with bordeaux mixture and care to prevent 

 accidental injuries make up the preventative 

 treatment. The larger diseased limbs may 

 be saved from complete loss by cutting- them 

 oflF back of the cankered area and inserting 

 cions of the same variety. 



European Canker [not common). — Only a 

 few specimens showing effects of this trouble 

 have been found in America, some coming 

 from Nova Scotia and a few from New 



York State. The cankers are unlike 

 those of the Sphceropsis and are caused 

 by a different fungus, Nectria ditissima. 

 They are well represented by the figures on 

 preceding page, one showing a recent 

 infection and the other an old canker. 



Though rare in America, the trouble 

 should be watched for by apple growers, as 

 it is a serious pest in English orchards. 



FRUIT NOTES. 



than that 



HERE will not be a good half crop of 

 apples in this district this season, 

 although our own orchard will be more 

 There are very few Baldwins or 

 Snows ; Greenings are V2 a crop, Spys ^ 

 or better, Canadian Red, Golden Point, 

 Haas, Boston Star, Duchess, Minkles, 

 Grime's Golden, and some of the pippins 

 are fairly well loaded. Of the stock planted 

 in 1897, Shackleford, Gideon, Ben Davis, 

 No. 261 Russian, Yellow Transparent, 

 Wealthy, Red Bietigheimer, and some others 

 have all the fruit on they should have ; 

 Ontario is loaded, and I have thinned some 

 of the trees by cutting off" the fruit where 

 too much is set. In pears, Kieffer takes 

 the lead as usual ; they will require thinning 

 to get good samples ; there is a fair crop of 

 the following ; Clapp's Favorite, Clairgeau, 

 Louise, while Bartlett, Lawrence, the Pres- 

 ident Druard are very lightly loaded. In the 

 planting of 1897 and 1898, several varieties, 

 such as Winter Nelis, Doyenne, d'Ete, 

 Druard, Kieffer, Duchess Precoce, Howell, 

 Wilder, Rutter, Koonce, Krull, and many 

 others have a few samples of clean nice fruit. 

 So far this season we have had no blight 

 although many were slow coming out in leaf. 

 In plums it is needless to enumerate, as al- 

 most every plum of bearing age is loaded, 

 having had no crop of plums for the last 

 two years. The curculio got pretty well 



starved out and very few put in an appear- 

 ance during the early part of the season. 

 Soon after the plums began to grow, 

 we had several days of rainy and dark 

 weather, consequently the plums began to 

 rot on the trees, but as soon as I observed 

 it I sprayed them with whale oil soap, 2 lbs. 

 to a gallon of warm water, and the rot seem- 

 ed to be cured at once, so that I believe 

 there will be the largest plum crops this 

 section ever had. Cherries promised well 

 at first but the hot weather of the past 

 weeks is ripening them prematurely. They 

 will not be as large samples as usual. 

 We generally have very fine cherries in 

 this district, of superior quality, especially 

 the Morello and Duke class. Strawberries 

 were good while they lasted but their 

 season was short ; raspberries promise 

 well, both black and red, and the growth 

 of such kinds as Cumberland, Shaffer and 

 Columbia are immense. Grapes promise 

 well but set rather late. Blackberries and 

 gooseberries are good but red and white 

 currants only medium. We have been try- 

 ing for some years to grow apricots and 

 peaches, and at last we are to be rewarded, 

 as most apricots are loaded and a few peaches 

 are showing up ; the trees are healthy, no 

 curl leaf to speak of where whale oil soap 

 was used. I think all our trees, both fruit 

 and ornamental, have made more growth in 



