112 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAE SOCIETY. 



Mr. Butler: In our experience the Japan plum will live 

 longer and bear better, and die happier on the peach than on 

 the plum. 



Mr. Stocking: My experience is that the plum on the peach 

 will die of peach yellows just as quick as the peach tree will. 

 Just the same. 



Mr. J. H. Putnam : I wish to say, that we have a paper here 

 by Professor F. C. Stewart of Geneva, N. Y., which is right in 

 line with this subject. As Professor Stewart was unable to be 

 here he sent the paper in to the Secretary. Out of courtesy to 

 him we thought it proper to announce that we had the paper. 

 The programme is very full, but if it is desired this paper can 

 be read. If not, it will be incorporated in the report just the 

 same. The paper is very short and it is devoted entirely to the 

 prevention of brown rot in stone fruits. 



Professor Townsend: I would be glad to hear this paper, 

 as I am to speak a little later on this subject. You can see, Mr. 

 President, that I am especially interested, and I will therefore 

 make a motion to that effect. 



Motion seconded and passed and the paper, of Professor 

 Stewart was then read by Mr. Putnam as follows : 



The Prevention of Brown Rot of the Stone Fruits. 



By F. C. Steivart, New York Experiment Station, Geneva. 



The brown rot fungus, Monilia fiiicfigena, is very destructive 

 to plums, peaches, apricots and cherries. It destroys the blos- 

 soms, kills the smaller branches and rots the ripening fruit. 

 Although long recognized as a disease which is more or less 

 destructive every season, often causing losses of 50 per cent, or 

 more, there is to-day no well established method of treating it. 

 Everywhere, growers of the stone fruits are asking. What shall 

 we do for the rot? And no one can answer the ([uestion in a 

 satisfactory manner. 



On the different fruits the problem is somewhat dift'erent, but 

 in all cases treatment by means of sprays is hampered by the 

 danger of spotting the fruit ; and with peaches, apricots and 

 Japan plums there is the additional disadvantage that the foliage 

 is liable to injury. Consequently, regular and thorough spray- 

 ing with our standard fungicide, Bordeaux mixture, is impracti- 



