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perfect fruit from unless the trees are thoroughly sprayed. 

 Mr, Plant reports the disease as bad, even in the dry 

 season just past. 



Peach. — The Brown Rot (Monilia) was not as bad this 

 year as usual. Of course there was only a very light crop, 

 but not more than one per cent of this was affected with the 

 disease. I am under the impression that even had there 

 been a full crop there would have been much less of this 

 trouble than usual, owing to the dry weather. 



Plum and Cherries. — The Black Knot (Plowrightia) was 

 about as prevalent as usual, and it always will be so, as 

 long as there are so many wild cherries about the farm to 

 spread the disease. The only treatment for this disease is 

 to cut out the knots and burn them. With this, and 

 thorough spraying, which will after a while kill the spores 

 of the fungus, we may hope to get rid of it entirely, if at 

 the same time the wild cherries are destroyed. 



Question by Mr. A. C. Innis: The Flemish Beauty 

 Pear is often badly cracked. Is this caused by the pear 

 scab? 



Dr. Sturgis: Yes; and is greatly aggravated, in the 

 case of the Flemish Beauty, by the susceptibility of that 

 variety to Leaf Spot (Entomosporium), and when these 

 two come together in one season the fruit suffers badly. 

 With thorough spraying with the Bordeaux Mixture this 

 pear may be kept entirely free from the scab. 



Question by Dr. L. A. Smith : Do you spray quinces 

 in the dormant state with sulphate of copper? 



Answer: There can no harm come from such spraying 

 and it will doubtless kill many of the spores. 



Question — Mr. Merriman: What did you do to prevent 

 the black rot "in grapes? What spray did you use? 



Answer: Bordeaux Mixture entirely. 



Question — Mr. Kelsey: What did you spray pears with? 



Answer: Bordeaux Mixture. 



Question — Mr. Ives: The Black Knot seems to be quite 

 prevalent at the present time on European varieties of 

 plums. Are we likely to have trouble with it on the 

 American and Japanese varieties also? 



