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over the trees during the growing season, and if any incipient blight is seen, all diseased 

 portions are shaved oflF, and the wound washed with a wash made with one 

 peck of the best quich lime, with four pounds of sulphur mixed with it, and then 

 boiling hot water poured on to them sufficient to slake the lime, and reduce it to a thick, 

 white wash, and also all parts of the tree, covered with old dry bark. The trees under 

 Mr. Saunders' care stand in a closely mown sod, are vigorous to a fault, almost entirely 

 free from loss by blight, bear great crops of the finest fruit, yet the soil in which they 

 grow is simply a thoroughly underdrained swamp. They arc mostly dwarfs on 

 Quince. 



Sulphur, or rather sulphurous acid, and sulphurous acid gas, are well know to be 

 deadly poisons to all species of fungi, therefore it follows if we can keep our pear 

 trees continually under their influence, or in other words, if we can keep this acid 

 or this gas always present on the barks of our pear trees in the growing season, we 

 can have no blight. To have them there it will only be necessary to wash all parts 

 of our trees covered with indurated bark, three or four times during the growing sea- 

 son with the above wash, or what would perhaps be a better wash, equal parts of sul- 

 phur and lime prepared in the same way, only boiling it in water for some time after 

 slacking. This would give us the chemical compound known as polysulphate of cal- 

 cium. I am inclined to believe that one thorough application of this wash to a pear 

 tree about the middle of May, would generally prevent blight. 



A tree grown as I have indicated will not be so injured bj' blight but seldom so as 

 to destroy it, while a tree with a long, naked trunk, would as a rule be destroyed. I 

 would say in conclusion that an orchard planted and treated as above, without the washes 

 or root pruning, is a pretty safe investment, if we do our very best to not allow the 

 trees to be over excited in growth, and plant them thickly, six to eight feet apart, in 

 rows running a little west of south, and giving them plenty of room the other way. 



Frnits Recommended lor liOulNiana . 



The Fruit Growers' Association of Louisiana, at a late meeting adopted the following 

 list of fruits for general cultivation in that State : 



Apples — Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Red June (Carolina), Yellow June, Sevan, 

 Early Strawberry, Julian, Mercer, Horse, Bachelor, Taunton, Rome Beauty, Carter, 

 Shockley, Yates, Roxbury Russet. 



The following were also recommended for further trial : 



Watkin's Sweet June, Hagan's Seedling, Pride of the South. 



Peara — Madeleine, Doyenne d'Ete, B. Gifiard, B. Goubalt, Doyenne Boussac, Howell, 

 Bartlctt, B. Superfine, Onondaga, St. Michael Archangel, Duchesse d'Angouleme, B. Clair- 

 geau, Lawrence, Winter Nelis. 



Peocte — Yellow St. John, Early Tillotson, Stafford's Rareripe, Chinese Cling, Craw- 

 ford's Early, Oldmixon Free, Oldmixon Cling, Susquehanna, Columbia, Heath Cling, 

 Baldwin's October, Lady Parham. 



Apricots — Moorpark, Early Purple. 



P2u»M — Wild Goose, Brill. 



For further trial — Columbia, Lombard. ■ 



Grapes — Delaware, Concord, Warren, Scuppernong. Promising — Eumelan, Ives, Isra- 

 ella. 



Strawberry — Lengworth's, Wilson, Mary Stewart, Imperial, Triomphe de Grand. 



Quinces — Apple, Chinese. 



Figs — Smyrna, White Genoa, Celeste, Brown Turkey, Brunswick, Green Ischia. 



Pomegranates — Sub-aeid, Sweet, Sour. 



Raspberries — Mammoth Cluster, Davidson's Thornless. 



For further trial — Philadelphia, Clark, Seneca Black Cap. : 



Orange — Creole Sweet Seedlings, Large China, Mandarin. • 



Japan Plums — At New Orleans and south. , 



Pecan — Large soft shell. 



