New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 21 
scale have been conducted simultaneously in four sections of the 
State, namely, on Long Island near Riverhead, in the upper Hud- 
son Valley near Kinderhook, in western New York at Geneva and 
near the extreme western part of the State in Niagara County. 
The treated trees numbered 718, of which 251 are peaches, includ- 
ing 11 varieties; 129 plums, Japan varieties; 248 pears, including 
about 6 varieties; 3 sour cherries and 31 large Baldwin apple 
trees. 
The trees were examined frequently during the summer to 
ascertain results. The effect upon the trees and scales was 
practically uniform in all the orchards. There was no evidence 
of injury except on Long Island where the fruit-buds of the 
Japan plums were apparently slightly injured, due in all prob- 
ability 10 the late date of treatment. In all cases the foliage was 
delayed about a week but was uniformly as good or better than 
that of the check trees. All of the treated trees, with the excep- 
tion of the Japan plums, bore a fair crop of fruit practically free 
from scale. In some cases, especially the apples, the crop was 
greatly increased. The fruit on the check trees was in every 
case badly disfigured and unmarketable. 
The effect upon the scale was equally pronounced. The check 
trees in all the orchards showed an abundance of living scale on 
both the old and the new growth while on the treated trees only 
an occasional scale was found. 
The wash adhered to the trees much better than was antici- 
pated. All of them remained white for at least two months and 
a residue remained adhering to the bark throughout the season. 
The lime-sulphur-salt wash combines readily with bordeaux 
mixture. A number of experiments were made with this com- 
pound which gave highly satisfactory results. 
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE. 7 
Variety tests—— The former custom of issuing annual bulletins 
containing observations on varieties of small fruits was discon- 
tinued in 1899. The first report on strawberry varieties published 
by the Station since then is contained in Bulletin No. 218, Novem- 
ber, 1902. In that bulletin are given careful descriptions of the 
new varieties of strawberries which have been fruited at the 
