56 The Connecticut Pomological Society 



Mr. Hale: ''This matter was up at the meeting of the 

 Western New York Horticultural Society, and the general 

 opinion there was that the apples from trees that have been 

 sprayed with Bordeaux were sounder and of better keeping 

 quality, It helps to make good, healthy foliage, and that is a 

 great help to the proper development of the fruit. I do not 

 think there is any question in the minds of those who have 

 sprayed with Bordeaux but that they get far longer keeping 

 apples, and far better looking ones." 



A Member: "I have sprayed my own trees with a mixture 

 of Paris green and water until this year, when I sprayed with 

 Bordeaux mixture. I could not tell what the difference in effect 

 has been though, because, although my trees were well loaded 

 with fruit, there came along that big wind that took off about 

 eighty per cent of them, so I have had no chance to make a 

 comparison." 



Mr. InniS: "I would like to ask in this connection if it is 

 possible to know why this year particularly, the Baldwin 

 perhaps worse than most any other variety, both on the 

 sprayed and unsprayed trees, have rotted so from the core 

 outward ? Nine-tenths of my fruit, all Baldwins, went that 

 way, and much of it was so much so that the apple on very 

 little pressure would simply break all to pieces. I would like 

 to ask if anybody here can account for it ? " 



The President: "Perhaps that was a local trouble con- 

 fined to your orchard." 



Mr. InniS: "-t may be local so far as our locality was 

 concerned, because my neighbors, many of them, were in 

 exactly the same boat." 



A Member: "My orchard was troubled in the same way. 

 First you would see a little spot that was just perceptible 

 around the stem, and by examination you would find that it 

 went right through to the core. 1 put in ninety bushels of 

 Baldwins on one day, and when I came to look them over 

 this winter I found that a large percentage had started from 

 that way, from the stem inward to the core, and from the 

 core outward to the stem." 



Mr. Ives: "I would like to ask if they were sprayed 

 with Bordeaux mixture ? " 



