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That Webster defines "bruise" as follov;s: "to batter, contuse, 

 injure, pound, break, pestle or maltreat? Even Ben Davis must succumb ■ 

 from such treatment. L.S. 



Tliat Jonathan, PUiode Island Greening, King and Rome Beauty are 

 more susceptible to arsenical injury than Mcintosh, V^ealthy, and Delicious? 

 This was reported from Michigan where the recommendation for prevention of 

 injury is the inclusion of a 1-4-100 or a 2-4-100 zinc sulfate-lime mixture 

 to sprays containing arsenical s beginning two weeks after calj/-x. L.S. 



How to file a pruning saw? The writer has a good supply of a 

 manual dealing with the care of various kinds of saws, prepared by a na- 

 tionally known saw manufacturer. A postcard will brin^ a copy to your work- 

 shop. Just ask for the Saw Manual. . 



That a total of 498 plants have been patented during the past 10 

 years? Of this number, 356 are on flov;ers, 99 on fruits and nuts, 23 on 

 ornaraental s , and 20 on miscellaneous plants. Rose patents alone number 246. 

 Fruit patents are distributed as follows: peach-27; apple-13; cherry, plum 

 and strawberry-7 each; grape, orange and nectarine-4 each; pear-3, raspberry, 

 blackberry, dewberry, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and pomegranate-1 each. The 

 largest number of plant patents granted in any one year since 1931 was 85 

 in 1940-; the smallest number was 32 in 1934. 



The Peach C rop for J^9 42 



The prospects for a peach crop in the College orchard are very 

 poor. A survey made January 28 showed the percentage of live buds as follows: 



Due to the late, wannfall the buds are very much more advanced 

 than usual for this time of year. It is, therefore, not strange that they 

 should succumb to higher temperatures than usual. The lov/est official tem- 

 perature for Amherst was -13° F. on January 8. A thermograph near the 

 orchard on the same date registered -10° F. Although there are still enough 

 buQs on some varieties for a good crop, the winter is not over yet. Y/e won'tj 

 "harvest any peaches" 'til after Y^'ashington' s birthday, J. S. Bailey 



Arsenical Injury in Young Peach Trees Growing on Old Apple Land 



In an article on the subject of arsenic toxicity in the soil, 

 E. C. Blodgett describes a poisoning of young peach, apricot and Italian 

 prune trees in Idaho caused by arsenioal residues in old apple orchard soilsi 

 The symptoms included leaf spotting, shot-holing and premature defoliation, 

 accompanied in pronounced cases by a crop of small, bitter fruits. Injury 

 was greatest during the first two or three years following setting of the 

 young orchard, and became progressively milder as the trees grew older and 

 as the roots grew deeper into the soil. The disease was readily reproduced 

 artificially by (l) setting young peach trees in pails of soil taken from 



