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trees, he cuts off the limb affected and destroys it at 

 once. Has noticed the disease extend itself at dif- 

 ferent times during the growing season, but during 

 the mouth of August it was most fatal. Passe Col- 

 mar has blighted more than any other sort with him. 

 Some Tlcar of ffinkjidd and a few Glout Morccau. 

 Thinks that the disease is so intricate, and so far be- 

 yond our comprehension, that it is useless to try to 

 ascertain the cause; and believes that fire blight docs 

 not destroy more than one to two per cent. 



Mr. Tow.NSKNn, in reply to an inquiry, stated that 

 he had had in his grounds instances of the frozen 

 sap blight mentioned by Downing. 



Mr. B.4RRY had no theory for the disease. A few 

 years ago they suffered very much from it. Thought 

 it was not a general disease, but, like the yellow fever, 

 confined to certain localities, and was the result of 

 atmo.spheric action, and could not be accounted for 

 any more than the cholera. The disease seemed to 

 be quite migratory in its habits. He remembered 

 very well when there was not a case in Lockport, in 

 fact did not know what it was; now they have it 

 badly. In Buffalo it is just commencing, while in 

 Rochester none is seen comparatively. 



Mr. Prince thought that the cells were gorged 

 with sap. Mr. P. thought ten years ago that it was 

 an insect, but has given it up, and believes now that 

 it is caused by the atmosphere, owing to the peculiar 

 state of the sap and the atmosphere at the same time. 

 Thinks that some sorts are more subject to blight 

 than others, and says that such sorts blight worse 

 that possess large sap vessels — say the strong grow- 

 ing varieties. 



Mr. HoAG noticed that trees blighted worse while 

 under high cultivation, and during change of the at- 

 mosphere from cool to hot moist weather. 



Mr. PiNNET purchased one hundred pear trees, 

 equal quantities of Swan's Orange, Flemish Bcanty, 

 Tyson, Madeleine, and Glout Morceau; lost all of 

 the Swan's Orange and some Glout Morceau. 



Mr. Manly thoughC that Glout Morceau was more 

 affected by blight than any other sort. 



Mr. TuoJiAs suggested, as a means of arriving defi- 

 nitely at the varieties of pears most affected by the 

 blight, that each member should in the morning bi-ing 

 in a list of jiears most liable to Might, with a descrip- 

 tion of the soil in which the trees were grown, and 

 the mode of culture. ' The meeting then adjourned 

 till 8 J o'clock Friday morning. 



The members met at the appointed hour; Mr. L. 

 F. Allen in the chair; who read a list of pears most 



susceptible to blight in the opinion of several of the 

 mcmbei's. 



J. J. Thomas, Macedon. — Madeleine, Passe Col- 

 mar, Bartlett, Stevens' Genesee, Vicar of IFinkJield, 

 Glout Morceau. Most liable to blight in the order 

 named. Least subject to blight S«ctei. Soil clayey; 

 sandy and loamy soil; subsoil, clay. 



J. Frost, Rochester. — Have had only single speci- 

 mens killed of any variety, they being Vicar of fVink- 

 feld, Bartlett, and Glout Morceau. Soil, strong 

 sandy loam; clay subsoil. 



A. LooMis, Byron. — Van Mons, Vicar oj fVink- 

 feld, Madeleine, Bartlett. Soil, sandy loam; grav- 

 elly subsoil. 



Jno. B. Eaton, Buffalo. — Colmar d'Jlremberg, 

 Gloul Morceau, Passe Colmar, Seckel, Stevens' 

 Genesee, Bartlett, Duchessed'Angouleme. Soil, sandy 

 loam; gravelly subsoil. 



A. PiNNET, Clarkson. — Swan's Oi-ange, Made- 

 leine, Glout Morceau, Stevens' Genesee. Strong 

 sandy loam; clay Shbsoil. 



C. M. Hooker, Rochester. — Glout Morceau, Passe 

 Colmar, Stvan's Orange, Madeleine. 



P. Barry, Rochester. — In the nursery, Glout Mor- 

 ceau nnd Vicar of fVinkfield; specimen ground, Glout 

 Morceau — only four trees out of tbrty. Light sandy 

 loam; clay subsoil. 



C. D. Hoao, Lockport. — Bartlett, Stevens' Gene- 

 see, Madeleine, Julienne, Dix, Dvnmore, SecJ^el, 

 IVhile Doyenne. Sandy loam; subsoil, clay. 



H. E. Hooker, Rochester. — Madeleine, Passe Col- 

 mar, Slimmer Bell, Glout Morceau, Stvan's Orange, 

 Vicar of fVinkfield, Bartlett, Stevens' Genesee, Belh 

 Lucrative, Louise BonAe, Beurre Diel, Easter 

 Beurre, Winter HVelis, Sheldon, White Doyenne, and 

 Seckel. Strong sandy loam. 



T. 0. Maxwell, Geneva. — Gloxit Morceau and ■ 

 Vicar of Winkfield, in nursery; Madeleine, in. orch- 

 ard. Clay and gravelly loam: clay subsoil. 



W. R. CoppocK, Buffalo. — Bartlett, White Doy- 

 enne, Louise Bonne, Vicar of Winkfield, Bufpum. 

 Cli.y loam, resting on limestone. 



E. C. Frost, Catharine, N. Y., has seen no blight 

 in his grounds. 



Mr. Barry said that Glout Morceau and Vicar 

 of Winkfield, which are very extensively cultivated, 

 would naturally be more susceptible to blight than 

 those which are cultivated in small quantities; there- 

 fore these lists were not much criterion to be guided by. 

 The subject of the cultivation of or-:hard trees was 

 introduced by Mr. Thomas, and discussed by Messrs. 

 Barry, Townsend, Thomas, Hooker, and Coppock, 



