I04 THE COXXECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Something" like one-half the nmnber of trees sprayed were 

 quite severely cut back, for several reasons, one being that it 

 would presumably greatly lessen the cost of the job of spray- 

 ing ; and we found that said cutting back did greatly lessen the 

 quantity of material and labor used. The last two or three 

 days spraying damaged many blossom buds as well as the 

 foliage buds. It certainly is not safe to use this spray beyond 

 a certain point of development of the fruit buds. As to results, 

 1 do not know where there is a tree in the lot of about ii,ooo 

 sprayed that scale can be found on, still I would not dare say 

 that there is no scale there. The bark of the trees in appear- 

 ance is clean and glossy, all that could be desired. 



I am inclined to think the spray may be worth all it costs as 

 a fungicide in giving clean healthy trees and handsome fruit. 

 The few peaches that we had (except from an orchard not 

 sprayed) were nearly free from black spot and mildew and 

 possessed excellent keeping qualities. The fruit from the 

 unsprayed orchard was in marked contrast, badly spotted and 

 mostly low'-priced fruit. Some of the cleanest, soundest and 

 most beautiful fruit we had came from a section of the orchard 

 from which two years before we did not market one-quarter 

 of the fruit, on account of rotting in the orchard before we 

 could gather it. On the whole, we are past fearing the San 

 Jose scale in our peach orchards, for we are confident of our 

 ability to keep it thoroughly in check by a method that appears to 

 be valuable also for its help in giving handsome and good-keep- 

 ing fruit. So far, it has cost us about $2,000, more or less, to 

 knock out the scale in these orchards, and to learn what we 

 know about how to do it ; a large sum, yet when we stop to 

 consider a moment and realize that these orchards, while still 

 young, have with the scale present, produced fruit in quantity, 

 well towards the hundred thousand basket mark in the four 

 full and partial crops produced, and at the present time give 

 abundant reason to expect a full crop the coming season, 

 this statement as a showing of results seems to me much better 

 than to have surrendered to ]\Ir. San Jose Scale and cut the 

 trees down. Rather, I am proud (please pardon me if I am 

 out of place) if in solving this problem for ourselves we may 

 be of service in helping to down this seeming great menace to 

 .Connecticut fruit growing and to the beautiful, ornamental 



