56 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



]\[onilia rot of the plum and peach is a very difficult thing 

 to control by spraying, and none of the spraying solutions or 

 mixtures seems to have more than a partial effect. The best 

 methods of handling the rot, in the absence of any suitable 

 spraying mixture, particularly where it appears late in the sea- 

 son, on ripened fruit, consists in gathering the fruit just before 

 it is mature and not allowing any overripe fruit to remain on 

 the tree to become affected. AVhen the rot occurs early in the 

 season, as is sometimes the case, this method would be of little 

 use, and spraying, even if only partially effective, might be 

 resorted to tentatively. 



