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trees, and the apple scab on the apple leaves and fruit had not been 

 so abundant for many years, but where spraying was thoroughly 

 done the fruit was saved from injury. 



No one can predict what the season will be, as affecting insect or 

 fungous life, and it has become the practice of the most progressive 

 growers to spray in such a way that no matter what the conditions 

 of the season both insects and fungi shall be controlled. I'he Spray- 

 ing Calendar of this division has been made up on this theory. See 

 Bulletin No. 80. 





Fig. 29. 



VARIETY TP:STING OF FRUITS. 



The number of new varieties of large fruits that produced a crop 

 was small, because of the imperfect fertilization of the flowers, owing 

 to the abundance of rain at the time the flowers opened and perhaps 

 to the conditions that in 1900 were unfavorable to the production of 

 fruit buds. 



