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in looking them over, I had noticed that a 
little bunch of them seemed to have this 
appearance to a slight extent, but I had 
not paid much attention to it at the time. 
My recollection was that the seedlings 
had been planted where stumps had been 
burned and the ashes left, and consider¬ 
able potash was left from the ashes. I no¬ 
ticed the condition in the seedlings when 
they were turned up and thought it was 
due to being planted among the ashes left 
from the burned logs. Then it occurred 
to me maybe that was the same thing I 
had seen in the seed bed. 
Without an exception, every seedling 
had this disease on it. I inquired around 
to see if anybody else had it, and I found 
everybody who had a sour seedling had 
discovered it. 
Up in my grove I had one tree in which 
the bud had died. I had left that tree to 
get sour oranges from. I said, “Let's go 
up and look at that tree and see if there 
is any trouble with it.” It was absolutely 
covered with it. How it got there, I do 
not know, because it was entirely isolated; 
whether it got there through being car¬ 
ried by birds or insects, I do not know, 
but it was there. 
I was very much interested by that 
time, and I investigated and found prac¬ 
tically everybody in the State had the 
trouble. From that time it began to grow. 
We knew nothing about the rough lem¬ 
on stock, but we found when we began to 
utilize it, that it had the same trouble, 
even worse than the sour and the grape¬ 
fruit or the orange was infected. 
This has been going on for years, and 
keeps getting worse. This season, in my 
nursery, I have treated it with Bordeaux. 
I started in before the trees started the 
spring growth and gave the Bordeaux, 
and as soon as they got a little up, I gave 
them another dose, and followed that up 
with lime sulphur, and I think I have got¬ 
ten the thing under pretty good control. 
I do not think it is conquered, but I have 
never had my seedlings in as good shape. 
Of course, as soon as you begin to ap¬ 
ply Bordeaux, you are laying trouble for 
yourself with scale insects, and you must 
follow that up with scalecide. 
I want to follow this up for two or 
three reasons. In Winter Haven, we have 
hundreds of thousands of seedlings of 
sour stock. Then in my own groves— 
the oldest grove I have there is four years 
old—the first growth that comes out in 
the spring we have more or less trouble 
with scab, but in the fall there is abso¬ 
lutely no scab on the older growth. 1 
never have pruned those trees; I am a 
good deal like the shoemaker, his children 
go barefoot. I have not paid much at¬ 
tention to the groves. But in this four- 
year-old grove I have never sprayed but 
twice and that was with Schnarr’s Insecti¬ 
cide and lime sulphur. I think that is as 
pretty a four-year-old grove as you will 
find in the State, and there has been scab 
in it for the last two or three years. I 
was alarmed about it and thought the 
grove was in bad shape, but just as soon 
as the hot weather comes on in our dis¬ 
trict, any fungus disease appears to dis¬ 
appear. During the dry, hot weather, the 
scab disappears. The second growth that 
comes out on our trees is as bright as a 
dollar. / ^ 
When it comes to fruit, of course the 
