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and got scarcely any russeting. In the orchards that I examined, 

 I am convinced from what we know of the cedar apple rust, 

 the lime-sulphur would not control it as well as the Bordeaux. 

 I am still going to use Bordeaux in some orchards where I 

 have the scab, until I see another season's results, and until 

 climatic conditions are taken into account. Seven miles from 

 the seacoast, around Boston, on the top of the hills, I saw 

 orchards that were sprayed with arsenate of lead alone, and 

 there was no russeting whatsoever. In the lowlands in that 

 same region, a great many of the varieties were badly injured. 

 I think we have got to take the climatic condition more into 

 account than the spraying. And I am sorry I haven't got any 

 more information about it on this particular point. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Mr. Ives : Just a w-ord about varieties that were not 

 injured so much by Bordeaux. Should we spray with one 

 or the other, as far as you have observed? You have 

 touched on that point a little. 



Mr. Frost: I should hesitate in -advising anyone from 

 one season's experience. 



AIr. Ives : It is leading toward somethmg, however. 



Mr. Frost: I have not my notes with me because I did 

 not expect to be called on to say anything about it, but I 

 believe that Ben Davis should be sprayed with Bordeaux and 

 lime-sulphur, but I am not sure about it. Fall Pippin and 

 Fallawater I believe, however, should not be sprayed with 

 Bordeaux, and I am inclined to think that the Baldwin can be 

 sprayed with lime- sulphur. The Greening and the Graven- 

 stein and the Yellow Transparent I could not say were 

 injured by Bordeaux. I didn't see them handled with lime- 

 sulphur. 



Mr. Hopkins : I have a question I would like to ask 

 after I have said a word about russeting of fruit. I am an 

 infant in the spraying of fruit, have only sprayed two years, 

 so I am no authority, but I wall say that we sprayed this year 

 but once, after the blossoms fell, only the Greenings we spray 

 when the fruit was as big as small marbles, and this was with 

 Bordeaux. Those were cracked, and badlv cracked. 



