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Keeping Peonies Healthy 



SPRAYING PROGRAMME TO CONTROL DISEASE 



ONE who has never seen a bad case of botrytis 

 disease of the Peony is hardly competent 

 to say it does not amount to anything. As to 

 its not attacking the roots, however, I guess the 

 writer in last August's Garden Magazine is 

 right, for I believe it to be wholly an above- 

 ground disease; but the roots can be so weakened 

 by its above-ground effects as almost to kill the 

 plant, and to require years for recovery. The 

 summer blotching of the leaves may or may not 

 be the work of the botrytis, but its injury is 

 measured only by the amount of leaf-area de- 

 stroyed. The botrytis does its work early in the 

 season, and reaches its culmination at blooming 

 time, when the affected buds discharge their 

 spores. 



The disease can probably be kept under prac- 

 tically full control by pinching off affected stems- 

 and buds. In all such pinching, and also in or- 

 dinary disbudding, the operator should be very 

 careful never to touch a bud which is left. 



Where the plantation is extensive, spraying is a 

 much easier method — using bordeaux (one pound 

 of bluestone to one-half pound of stone lime in 

 fifty gallons of water). This is much stronger 

 in copper formula than the standard formula, but 

 more dilute. The lime must be slaked with hot 

 water on the stove as lime cannot be slaked 

 with cold water in so small a quantity. 



For an elaborate (and I should consider, the- 

 oretically complete) programme, I should sug- 

 gest (1) when a fair proportion of the shoots 

 are through the ground, taking pains to moisten 

 the whole ground surface as well as the shoots 

 themselves: (2) after all the shoots have come 

 through the ground: (3) when the leaves have 

 unfolded from the stalks and the side-buds are 

 exposed: (4) as soon as the blooms are cut. If 1 

 could give but one spraying, it would be number 

 three. Number four need never be given unless 

 conditions at blooming time show it necessary. 

 One or the other of numbers one and two may be 

 unnecessary at any time, and I would give both 

 only in a planting that was badly affected the 

 preceding year. If I gave only one of them, I 

 might delay the first a little, and make it do for 

 both. 



In spraying with a compound like bordeaux 

 use high pressure so as to have the spray in a 

 fine fog rather than in drops: and spray only 

 until the plants are fuzzy with the mist— not 

 until they are drenched. Also spray in bright 

 weather, or in the brightest part of the day, so 

 the spray will dry as quickly as possible. 



As to the Peony plants taking a rest for the 

 sake of the rest— they d'o not. If they fail to 

 bloom, it is on account of causes adverse to the 

 health or vitality of the plant. One of these is 

 the botrytis disease. The aforesaid writer has 

 enumerated sufficient others to make any 

 "rest" hypothesis utterly superfluous, and also 

 unlikely, seeing many plantings of Peonies 

 never do rest. His reference to orchard resting 

 also is unconvincing, as the causes for orchard 

 resting, other than the growth programme of the 

 fruiting spurs — which does not apply to the Peony 

 — are causes adverse to the trees, or, rather to 

 the fruit buds; spring freeze destroying the buds, 

 scab destroying the buds, rains washing out the 

 pollen, or chilly and damp weather preventing 

 insect activity, with consequent failure of pollena- 

 tion. 



As to cultivation about the roots, with a soil 

 that sets like cement heavy cultivation is a 

 necessity, but it must be properly timed. 

 B. C. Auten, Missouri. 



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