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I believe that Prof. Townsend, who will address you later, has 

 experimented with a lime and sulphur treatment, and may be 

 able to give us something new on this subject. 



]\Ionillia, or the brown-rot of the stone fruits, has been 

 unusually severe the past year, and Avas undoubtedly the most 

 damaging of the plant diseases. Mr. Plant reports the disease 

 more severe near the coast than in inland orchards, and no 

 experiments with spraying in his locality. Mr. Butler reports 

 it very bad on the fruit, but that it affected the trees less than 

 in 1900. As there will be two papers at this meeting treating 

 this subject I will not go into details. (By selection of certain 

 varieties this trouble can be somewhat overcome by commer- 

 cial growers, but it is aggravating to the amateur. avIio must 

 give up his most cherished varieties, particularly of the 

 European plums.) ^My limited experience leads me to believe 

 that dilute Bordeaux, — 2 lbs. copper sulphate, 2 lbs. lime, and 

 50 gallons of water. — can be used ordinarily without injury 

 to the foliage of the peach and Japan plum, and that copper 

 sulphate two ounces, or even four ounces, to fifty gallons of 

 water can also be applied frequently with profit. 



This treatment will control the scab too, and assist in con- 

 trolling the leaf-curl, which can also be held practically in 

 check by a thorough spraying with strong Bordeaux just as 

 the buds are swelling. 



Mr. Plant reports the peach leaf-curl doing much damage 

 particularly to the Elberta, and the yellows also very trouble- 

 some in some localities. 



There is no longer any dovibt but that the black-knot can 

 be controlled on European plums by Bordeaux supplemented 

 by cutting and burning the knots. Mr. Butler reports an 

 outbreak of the disease on the Satsuma variety of Japan plum. 

 It may be an entirely different matter to control the knot, if 

 the Japan variety are to be generally subject, as we cannot use 

 full strength Bordeaux. 



The black rot of the grape was very prevalent the past sea- 

 son. Selection of variety is a great help, certain varieties 

 being much less subject to it, as a rule, than the hybrids, but 

 here again, some of the best varieties in quality are the worst 

 affected. I have had good success with the Brighton by bag- 

 ging after thorough spraying, but this is hardly practical on 



