New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 297 
and most of the night, followed by moderately heavy showers 
the following day. 
Effects on the trees.— It was at once apparent that many of the 
young leaves had been injured. Those that were most 
exposed were burned to a crisp, as were also the tips of the 
young leaves that were just appearing beyond the bud. The 
injury to the latter was of no practical importance as the injury 
did not extend into the buds. The only visible effect of the treat- 
ment upon the foliage was to delay its appearing about a week. 
When it was well started, however, it seemed to grow rapidly 
and in a short time was as abundant and vigorous as in any of 
the neighboring orchards. In fact the owner of the orchard 
stated that the foliage was more abundant and of better color 
than for some years past. Some idea of the condition of the 
foliage is given by Plate XXX VII, which is from a photograph 
of the orchard taken in June. It was also noticeable that the 
trees blossomed unusually full, a fact, of course, not necessarily 
due to the treatment, but important in showing that the wash 
did not injure the fruit buds. 
The most significant fact in connection with the effect of the 
treatment upon the trees and especially upon the fruit buds was 
the amount and quality of fruit produced. The largest yield from 
this orchard during the past five years was 80 bushels, and dur- 
ing the past three or four years the fruit had been so badly in: 
fested with scale as to make it either unmarketable or of but 
little value. This year the yield was 275 bushels of clean mar- 
ketable fruit. Except for slight injury by the codlin moth the 
fruit was uniformly of high quality, only an occasional apple 
being found that showed the marks of the scale, while in every 
case the fr uit of the check trees was so badly infested with the 
scale as to be considered of too little value to harvest. Of 
special interest in this connection also is the fact that although 
the trees received no treatment except with the lime-sulphur- 
salt wash, the fruit from the treated trees was practically free 
from scab, while that of the checks was badly infested. The 
yield of the check trees also averaged much below that of the 
treated trees. , 
