HIGHTlillNTH .IXNUAL MEETING. 53 



]\1r. Pi.att: Well, wIk'h it l)lossoms heavily both years? 



Dr. Clinton : Did it bear heavily the previous year? 



Mr. Platt: Sometimes, not always. 



Dr. Clinton : It may be the weather conditions at 

 the time of the carrying- of the pollen. 



]Mr. Platt: Another thing, this year I picked apples 

 from trees ordinarily bearing smooth and clean fruit, which 

 were full of knarly. yellow, sometimes bitter lumps inside, 

 making- one out of every four apples unfit for use. Can vou 

 tell me the cause of that trouble 



Dr. Clinton: Are they ill-shapen apples? 



Mr. Platt : Sometimes. 



Dr. Clinton: I thing the aphis that Dr. Britton 

 speaks of had something- to do with this trouble ; apparently 

 that aphis attacks the fruit when very young and injures it 

 badly, sucking the juice from it. 



Meaiber : Is there any remedy for little peach ? 



Dr. Clinton : The same remedy as is used for peach 

 yellows ; cut it out. It is supposed to be contagious. There 

 is no other remedy. 



JMr. Fenn : Is it true that bees carry fertilization in 

 the case of melons, — I mean from other vines, as cucumbers, 

 spoiling the fruit? 



Dr. Clinton : I think not. I had some cucumbers by 

 the side of melons and they were not injured the first year, 

 anyway. The earlier you can ripen melons the better. The 

 fruit that ripens before the blight fungus infects the vines will 

 be of good quality, but after the fungus kills the vines then 

 the quality of the fruit begins to drop. Anything- that kills 

 the vines alTects the quality of the fruit. 



Mr. Fenn: Is there anv remedy for this fungus on 

 vines ? 



Dr. Clinton : As I said in my paper, spraying some- 

 times g-ives good results and sometimes not. You have got 

 to figure it out for yourself as to whether it will ])ay. Out of 

 the seven years I have sprayed, I don't think it has paid until 

 this last year. At the time the melons are ripening you 

 need good, hot, dry weather, — however, not too dry and hot. 



