New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 671 
In the orchards which came under our personal observation 
giving opportunity for comparing the sprayed with the unsprayed 
trees throughout the season the conclusion was irresistible that 
in many instances the spray injured both foliage and fruit. 
Figure 7 is reproduced from a Ben Davis injured by spray and 
figure 8 from a Monmouth injured from the same cause. The 
injury to the Seckel pears was so slight that it could hardly be 
shown in an illustration except possibly by a colored plate. 
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry are not the only fruit-growers of 
western New York, who attribute to the weather the injury to 
the fruit in 1894. Such injury was seen to some extent in 
unsprayed orchards in this vicinity, but judging from the reports 
from counties to the westward of Geneva it was much more 
marked there than here. It appears, therefore, that here at 
Geneva the irritation of the spray was sufficient under existing 
conditions to cause a russeting of the fruit such as in western 
counties of the State developed as a result of climatic conditions 
without such irritation from spraying. 
List oF PgeArs INJURED BY SPRAYING. 
The degree of injury from spray as noted on pears in the 
Station’s orchards was as follows: 
1. Very bad. Jones. Development of fruit seriously checked. 
9. Bad. Ansault, Comice, Doctor Reder, Maurice Desportes 
and Raymond de Montlaur. 
8. Considerable. Angouléme, Clairgeau, Congress, Delices 
de Louvenjal, Eastern Beurre, Fondante d’Automne, Frederic 
Clapp, Gansel’s Seckel, Goodale, Lawrence, Madam Treyve, 
Theresa Appert and White Doyenne; also Anjou in Smith’s 
orchard. 
4, Slight. Bartlett, Kieffer. 
5. Very slight. Le Conte. 
Some varieties naturally show russeting of the skin of the fruit 
varying in amount in different seasons. In such instances it was 
quite difficult to say just how much, if any, injury was done to 
them by the spray. Among the varieties of this kind may be 
mentioned Bosc,. Boussock, Buffum, Lamartine and Madam 
Millet. 
