STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 83 



1893. You will notice the last year was a very hard year on our 

 fruits. This year it was much better. I have some photographs 

 here, one tree was sprayed with Bordeaux mixture and one was not. 

 When the fruit was gathered I photographed them. This one 

 shows the perfect fruit at the left, the fruit badly scabbed in the 

 centre and that which was somewhat scabbed at the right. The 

 other picture is of a similar lot which was not sprayed. 



I said over to Wiuthrop the other day, "I am willing to put 

 myself on record as stating that apple scab may to a large extent 

 be checked by the use of some solution of copper, and the best of 

 those solutions seems to be the Bordeaux mixture." 



Qaes. A man in our lown raised some very fine Talman Sweets. 

 In years past I have noticec' a rusty appearance on these apples. 

 He claimed that it was rather an advantage to his apples, it showed 

 it was of a better variety, but in coming down here I detected that 

 on his Northern Spies there was the same color. Is it some fungous 

 growth or is it not? You may take the apple home if you don't 

 wish to say here. 



Ans It does not appear to be caused by any fungus, it is cer- 

 tainly not the apple scab. 



(Jues. I would like to ask if this scab will spread in the cellar? 



Ans. I have not carried on experiments which would enable me 

 to answer that definitely. It is probable that it might. It is certain 

 that the disease grows very much after it is put into the barrel. 



In regard to insects. The insect that the gentleman referred to 

 is the canker worm which gives serious trouble in many sections of 

 the State already. The best remedy which I know to meet this is 

 spraying with Paris green early in the season, using about a pound 

 to 150 gallons of water. Pretty strong. Brother Pope had a little 

 experience in spraying with Paris green for this insect last season. 

 The remedy that is used in some localities is to tie tarred paper 

 around the trees to prevent them from crawling up. The female 

 moth has no wings so crawls up the sides of the tree. If we put 

 bands of tarred paper around the tree she goes up to them but can 

 go no farther. I treated some trees in this way last year. Some 

 of the people here ridiculed the idea but when the season was 

 advanced and there was no trouble with the canker worm they said 

 "Your petticoats did prevent the canker worm after all." So it 

 does sometimes keep them from climbing up. 



The codling moth is one of the worst insects we have to deal 

 with. That is very much checked by the use of Paris green sprayed 



