30 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



sources and the increased interest in apple culture, the sight 

 of so much useless waste makes us think that there is still 

 much educational and demonstration work to be done by this 

 Society. Of course the commercial orchardist sprays his 

 trees at the proper time. The other fellow either sprays not 

 at all, or else does it after the trees begin to turn brown the 

 first week in June. It is then too late, and the damage has 

 been done. 



Outside of fruit insects, cut worms were very abundant 

 and did much damage. 



In August and September the grey birch trees through- 

 out the eastern and northern portion of the state turned brown 

 and finally lost all of their leaves from the attacks of a small 

 insect, Bncculatrix canadensiscUa Cham. This has previous- 

 ly been a pest in northern New England, and in certain sea- 

 sons in ^Massachusetts and Rhode Island ; but it has not, dur- 

 ing my residence of nearly seventeen years in Connecticut, 

 shown any such outbreak. Cut-leaf and other ornamental 

 birches were also injured in the same manner. These may 

 be protected by spraying with lead arsenate in July. 



W. E. BRITTON, New Haven, Chairman, 



C. D. JARVIS, Storrs, 



F. A. BARTLETT, Stamford, 



Coiiimittcc on Injurious Insects. 



The President: If there is no objection to this report 

 it will take the usual course. 



We will next take up No. 5, report on Demonstration 

 Orchard Work of the past year, by Prof. C. D. Jarvis of 

 Storrs. First, however, I have an announcement to make. We 

 have a question box here, and we also have a little booklet 

 that is going to be distributed in the audience, and we wish 

 you would write out your questions and send them up here, 

 and we will try to have them read at different times, so that 

 we can take them up for discussion. 



