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Apple Trees Dying. 



no I. Sir,— I would like to have your 

 advice as to what to do for my apple trees. 

 The leaves are all turning brown and they 

 are dying by the dozen. Most of them were 

 planted four years ago and have done well ; 

 they are mostly Yellow Transparents and 

 healthy. Duchess and crab apples are not 

 affected so bad. I thought the leaves faded 

 off a little unnatural last fall, they have not 

 looked very healthy all spring ; the weakest 

 of them dying first. Now the whole orchard 

 of 150 trees has a dusty brown shade, with 

 the leaves curling up. I thought possibly it 

 was the wet season, as part of the orchard is 

 rather wet clay, but the trees on the dry 

 light soil are going now as well as the others. 

 A few of them have bark loosening on the 

 south side from sun scald, but most of them 

 have real healthy trunks. I have not done 

 any spraying. What do you think is causing 

 it, and what remedy can I apply ? 



L. Love. 

 Port Sandfield, Muslcoka. 



We fear there is no remedy for the 

 trouble affecting your apple trees. The 

 sample sent us has the appearance of 

 apple twig blight, which has been a very 

 wide scourge this season. It may, 

 however, be the result of the recent 

 severe winter which has injured the 

 roots of orchard trees, especially of the 

 peach trees, in such a large area. 

 Strange to say, the vitality stored up in 

 the tree enables it to put forth leaves 

 in the spring, and even form some fruit, 

 but alas, in time the enfeebled condition 

 of the roots soon begins to show itself 

 in a dead or sickly top, and the tree is 

 past recovery. If the evil is wide 

 spread, this latter would be the explan- 



ation ; if only a few trees, it is probably 

 twig blight. 



Fruit in Cape Breton. 



1.102. Sir, — I am sending you herewith, 

 by parcel post, a box containing two Northern 

 Spy apples ; a small vial containing beetles 

 which I picked off my pears last autumn, 

 and a few withered fruit spurs from a pear 

 tree — the latter I took off the tree to-day. 

 When the blossoms dropped off the tree the 

 leaves on the fruit spurs withered up and are 

 still clinging to the twig, while the other 

 leaves on the tree seem to be perfectly 

 healthy. 



Will you kindly say what you think of 

 the quality of the apples ? What are the 

 beetles ? Are they injurious to the pear ? 

 And what is the trouble with the pear tree ? 



Plums will be a good crop here ; apples 

 fair only. The late cold weathor of May and 

 June probably was the cause of the fruit not 

 setting well. 



Referring to a recent article in the Horti- 

 culturist regarding Prunus Pissardi, I have 

 one ten years planted which is beginning to 

 show signs of failing health and is becoming 

 rather unsightly, but it was a beautiful tree 

 for several years. 



D. S. McDonald. 

 Glenclyer Mills, G. B. 



We should suppose from your descrip- 

 tion that your trees are affected with 

 the pear blight, which often begins with 

 the fruit twigs. 



The samples of Spy apples are in a 

 wonderfully good state of preservation 

 and if they have only had ordinary stor- 

 agC; their condition would go to show 

 that apples with our correspondent are 

 better keepers than those grown in 

 Ontario. 



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