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center blossoms were open on the south side of each tree, five 
trees were sprayed. Weather cool and cloudy at time of spray- 
ing, but sun came out bright at 10 o’clock. (2) Five more trees 
were sprayed Monday, May 21, when Mr. Hopkins judged them 
to be in full bloom. One hundred gallons of Bordeaux were 
used on these five trees. The weather was sunny at this spray- 
ing. (3) A third lot of five trees was sprayed Tuesday, June 12, 
when the fruit had set. 
Notes on the setting of fruit were taken then and again 
August 21: | 
TABLE VIII.—FRvIT-SETTING OF R. I, GREENING APPLE TREES SPRAYED AT 
DIFFERENT TIMES. 
Tree. When sprayed. Set of fruit, Jane12. Set of fruit, Aug. 21, 
at Before blossoms opened Fair Light 
2 Before blossoms opened Light Nothing 
3 Before blossoms opened Fair Light 
4 Before blossoms opened Full Fair 
5 Before blossoms opened Full Light 
6 In full bloom Full Light 
Zi In full bloom Fair Light 
8 In full bloom Light Light 
9 In full bloom Good Light 
10 In full bloom Fair Fair 
11 After fruit had set Full Light 
12 After fruit had set Full Very light 
13 After fruit had set Full Light 
14 After fruit had set Full Light 
15 After fruit had set Light Light 
16 Not sprayed : Full Light 
17 Not sprayed : Fair Light 
18 Not sprayed Light Light 
19 Not sprayed Fair Light 
20 
Not sprayed Light Light 
No constant difference. At picking time no differences could 
be detected, in quantity or quality of fruit, between any of the 
lots. ; 
Experiment 8, at F. B. Freeman’s, Middleport. Mr. Freeman 
has about twenty-five acres of bearing orchard. The one in which 
the experimental trees are located is in clean tillage. It has been 
sprayed for six years. The trees are from twenty-five to thirty 
years old and are of the Twenty Ounce variety. These trees have 
