NOTES FROM THE W. N. Y HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ceases to grow, and the tree loses vital- 

 ity. This disease was also reported at 

 Cayuka Lake, and in peach orchards on 

 the Niagara river opposite Queenston. 

 Mr. R. Morrill, of Benton Harbor, 

 Michigan, President of Michigan State 

 Horticultural Society and a large peach 

 grower, says that this disease is quite as 

 contagious as the yellows, that there is 

 no known remedy but to dig out and 

 burn roots as found. 



Mr. S. S. Crissey, of Fredonia, N.Y., 

 read a paper on the 



Chautauqua and Erie Grape Com- 

 pany. 



The Chautauqua-Erie Grape Belt in- 

 cludes eleven townships ; nine of them 

 border on Lake Erie and join each 

 other. There are twenty-seven thou- 

 sand acres planted with grapes. Ninety- 

 five per cent, of all the vines planted 

 are Concord. Two thousand five hun- 

 dred growers, representing twenty-five 

 thousand acres, are members of the 

 Company. The objects of the Com- 

 pany are to supply a uniform grade of 

 fruit, prevent the overloading of the 

 markets, secure a wider and more equal 

 distribution of the fruit at the least pos- 

 sible cost to the producer. There was 

 shipped from this district in 1897, 6,000 

 car loads of grapes. The crop was light- 

 er in 1898, being estimated at 4,000 cars. 

 The Company handled in a single day, 

 Oct. 16, 218 cars of 2,800 baskets each, 

 or 600,000 baskets. They handled in a 

 single week over 1,000 cars. Each 

 day's shipment was pooled separately 

 and every basket accounted and paid 

 for. The Company paid all expenses, 

 all losses, and every grower in full, at a 

 cost of less than three mills per basket. 

 The business of one year amounted to 

 nearly one million dollars. Seven and 

 three-quarter cents each was the average 



price received by growers for nine- 

 pound baskets of grapes. 



Mr. J. J. Borden, Inspector for San 

 Jose Scale, reported a very bad infesta- 

 tion on Long Island, he found seventeen 

 Nurseries infested. Flushing Cemetery 

 is also badly infested, both trees and 

 bushes, including two rows of elms from 

 forty to fifty feet high. Beach, maple, 

 linden, in fact almost all kinds of trees 

 are infested. 



Central Park, New York, he says, is 

 badly infested. He reports thousands 

 of trees killed by the scale, and hun- 

 dreds' of thousands dying, including 

 many full grown apple trees. 



Professor Beach says that stock solu- 

 tions for Bordeaux Mixture is all right, 

 but they must not be mixed until wanted 

 for use, and then they should not be 

 put in the spraying barrel until the bar- 

 rel is partly filled with water, as when 

 put together at stock-strength a chemical 

 action takes place which injures the 

 mixture. He says that he would not 

 use Bordeaux Mixture that had been 

 prepared for over two days. 



D. K. Bell, of Brighton, gave an in- 

 structive address on " Pear Culture." 

 Clay loam the best soil for pears. 

 Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, Seckel, Shel- 

 don and Duchess, were among the 

 varieties recommended; he advises plant- 

 ing about two feet deep, and making a 

 large hole to give ample room for the 

 roots. Training should be done while 

 trees are dormant, say from Nov. 1st to 

 March 1st; he prefers the pyramid system 

 of pruning. Pear trees should be pruned 

 annually, and well cultivated and ferti- 

 lized, using manure every other year 

 Let the trees have plenty of sunshine 

 and air, don't grow any other crops on 

 the ground after the trees are eight 

 years old. Thin the fruit early in the 

 season. 



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