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THE COXNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



vear have realized most gratifying results for the same, and 

 that looking ahead for some time in the future, the skillful 

 grower of fruit, whether in large or small quantities, has a 

 sure and satisfactory reward in return for same. 

 This report was accepted and adopted. 



Report of Committee on Injurious Insects. 



Dr. W. E. Brixton, Chairman : An important feature of 

 the season of 1908 was the local appearance of Canker Worms 

 throughout the State. Most of the damage was apparently 

 done by the fall species, and several orchards were completely 

 stripped in May. The Canker Worm injury brought to my 

 attention was mostly along the coast, but the insect was pres- 

 ent in some localities in the northern portion of the State. 

 Orchards around Stamford, East River and at Stonington 

 were completely defoliated. A thorough spraying of the foli- 

 age with poison will prevent injury, and where spraying is not 

 practiced, sticky bands applied in October and kept sticky 

 through November and December, and again in spring will 

 protect the trees from damage. Probably this insect will do 

 even more damage the coming season than in 1908, so all or- 

 chardists should be prepared to spray early. 



The Peach Sawfly was observed in a number of diiTerent 

 orchards, and though it is now quite well distributed through- 

 out the southern-central portion of the State, it has not yet 

 been sufficiently abundant to do much damage except in the 

 Barnes orchards at Yalesville, where the thorough spraying 

 with lead arsenate in 1907 served as an important check to 

 this insect. We have no record of any spraying being done 

 against it in 1908, but all orchardists should be on the look- 

 out and prepared to give such a treatment in case the Peach 

 Sawfly appears in destructive numbers. 



A prevalent and apparently increasing pest is the Lesser 

 Apple-worm (Enhaniwiiia prunivora Walsh), which eats or 

 mines the surface of the apple when nearly ripe, often injuring 

 the appearance of the fruit in storage. Usually the blossom 

 end of the apple is injured, but this insect may attack any por- 



