72 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I'kof. Whetzel: Oh, I couldn't tell you, sir. I don't 

 believe the average grower gets that 33 degrees. I know of 

 some that have g-otten the 33 degrees. I don't believe the 

 amount of lime and sulphur will be the only factor, so I 

 could not answer that cjuestion. Perhaps Dr. Ijritton could 

 tell vou a good deal better about that than I can, or Dr. 

 Clinton. 



Dr. Brixton : I don't think any of us can tell the exact 

 amount to use to give a definite reading. 



.\t this point Mrs. Ida Jenness Moulton rendered a reci- 

 tation — a burlesque on "Women's Rights," following it with 

 an encore entitled "How a Lawyer Would Word a Legal 

 Document in Giving Away an Orange." 



Vice-President Drew in the chair: We will now re- 

 sume this matter of summer spraying, and taking up the ques- 

 tion list, I am going to read No. 21, "What is the cause of the 

 russeting of the apple " That has been discussed to a cer- 

 tain extent, but I don't think it would do any harm to dis- 

 cuss it again, and I am going to call on Dr. Clinton to give 

 us a few words on that. 



Dr. Clinton : In our work we assumed that consid- 

 erable was caused by the Bordeaux in the russeting, but in 

 order to show how much, we took a comparison of all of the 

 checked trees, and we were rather surprised in the amount of 

 russeting that appeared in those checked trees, so that we 

 cannot lay all the injury of a russet nature to spraying. It 

 seems that certain seasons are much worse for producing this 

 russeting on sprayed trees, just the same as certain seasons 

 produce more russeting from the spraying with Bordeaux. 

 This year we had two very late frosts, one the latter part of 

 May, and I believe one in June. These frosts were much 

 more serious in Massachusetts and in northern Connecticut 

 than in southern Connecticut, and so serious were those frosts 

 that it was noticed in some regions the trees had their leaves 



