^2 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



]\Ir. Cornell: A few years ago I had a Bartlett orchard 

 that was developing blight quite rapidly, and for almost every 

 day for tvvo weeks constantly I was in that orchard cutting 

 out that blight as it developed, and by that means controlled 

 it without any very serious damage to the orchard, while 

 many orchards in that section were pretty nearly destroyed 

 by it. You take some varieties of the pear, particulariv the 

 ^Manning's Elizabeth and the Bartlett. and you will find they 

 are very tender in foliage. A few years ago I killed the 

 foliage on some Manning's Elizabeth trees with copper sul- 

 phate five pounds to fifty gallons water, showing the tender- 

 ness of that foliage, and I don't at the present time use over 

 four pounds, and quite a good many of the growers at Lock- 

 port are saying that we shouldn't use so much as that. Arse- 

 nate of lead I have a very high opinion of. especially for use 

 on pears. I never was able to control the coddling moth 

 until I used lead, and I used arsenate of lead one year six 

 pounds to fifty gallons of Bordeaux mixture. That is pretty 

 heavy, but still there is no danger from the use of the arse- 

 nate, as it will not burn the foliage, and by that means I was 

 able to control the coddling moth, and so for the pear I would 

 recommend the use of arsenate of lead — it has great sticking 

 qualities, and that is what we want. 



A Member: What can }Ou tell us about the Worden- 

 Seckel pear? 



Mr. Cornell: I will say. three or four years ago I met 

 Air. Hale one day on the train and he called my attention to 

 the Worden-Seckel and spoke very highly of it. He said : 

 "Mr. Cornell, you are niterested in pears, and this Worden- 

 Seckel is going- to have a good market;" and on his judgment 

 I worked over some trees. I believe it has a good future, 

 and the commission men told me afterwards. "I have only 

 one fault to find with them, and that is you didn't have enough 

 of them." They were highl}- pleased with the fruit, and it is 

 a pear of fine (piality, and the pear improves with the age of 

 the trees. 



A Member: How about its susceptibility to blight? 



Mr. Cornell : It has been free with me ; so far. I have 

 had no blight on the Worden-Seckel. Of course my experi- 

 ence only goes back a few years, not enough to form a definite 



