: STATE OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CHARLES A, WIETING, Commisstonet Bureau of Horticultural Inspection Bulletin No. f Some Items of Information for ORCHARDISTS AND FRUIT GROWERS Relative to Certain Dangerously Injurious Insects and Diseases Prepared by GEORGE G. ATWOOD ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1907 STATE OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CHARLES A, WIETING, Commissioner oa / ! Bureau of Horticultural Inspection Bulletin No. J Some Items of Information for ORCHARDISTS AND FRUIT GROWERS Relative to Certain Dangerously Injurious Insects and Diseases Prepared by GEORGE G. ATWOOD ALBANY J..B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1907 ee ERAT BOLD Some Items of Information for Orchardists and Fruit- Growers Relative to Certain Dangerously Injurious Insects and Diseases. The Commissioner of Agriculture is charged with the enforce- ment of sections 82 and 83 of the Agricultural Law. These parts of the law are commonly called the San José scale law and relate to the prevention of disease in fruit trees and the extirpation of insect pests that infest the same. The law says, “‘ No person shall knowingly or wilfully keep any _ peach, almond, apricot or nectarine trees affected with the con- tagious disease known as yellows. No person shall knowingly or wilfully keep any peach ‘tree affected with the disease known as little peach. Nor shall any person knowingly or wilfully keep any plum, cherry or other trees affected with the contagious disease or fungus known as black-knot nor any tree, shrub or plant infested with or by the San José scale or other insect pest dangerously in- jurious to or destructive of the trees, shrubs or other plants; every such tree, shrub or plant shall be a public nuisance, and as such shall be abated.” * * * “Every person, when he becomes aware of the existence of such disease or insect pest in any tree owned by him, shall forthwith report the same to the commissioner of agriculture at Albany, New York, and the said commissioner shall take such action as the law provides.” The commissioner is furthermore required to cause the inspec- tion and certification of nursery stock, the inspection of ship- ments of nursery stock into the State, and in certain cases to re- quire the fumigaticn of nursery stock before shipment. . The work of the Department is not experimental along horti- cultural lines as is the work of the experiment stations. It. is the duty of the Department in the inspection of nurseries to pre- vent the spread of fungus and insect pests within the nurseries and also to prevent the spread of such pests in shipments of nur- sery stock to other places. 4 ’ In performing the work of orchard inspection it is the evident duty of the Department to do what it can to suppress and eradicate all pests that are destructive to the life of trees and plants. In doing this it may be necessary to destroy all such trees as are badly infested or infected. “ If, however, in the judgment of the com- missicner of agriculture, any trees, shrubs or plants infected with any disease or infested with dangerously injurious insects can be treated with sufticient remedies, he may direct such treat- ment to be carried out by the owner under the direction of the commissioner’s agent or agents.” It is the policy of the Department to save orchard property and not destroy it. Diseased trees are often worthless, or they may be in locations where they are or may become a menace to other trees, and therefore should be removed and destroyed. On the other hand, in certain circumstances, orchard and cther trees can be treated by spraying thoroughly from time to time, using the ap- proved formulas recommended by the Department. The insects and diseases that are considered by the Depart- ment as “dangerously injurious ” are as follows, though there are others that in the course of time may become so destructive within. the State that they must be added to the list: Peach yellows, Securfy scale, Black-knot, : Leeanium scale, Root gall, Little peach, Crown gall, Fire-blight, Anthracnose, Wooliy aphis, Black rot of grape, Borers, San José scale, Grape root worm. Oyster shell scale. The intent of this brief bulletin is first to call attention to the only statute on the subject of horticultural inspection in the State. Sections 82 and 83 of the Agricultural Law define not only the duty of the enforcing officer, the Commissioner of Agriculture, but also states the duty of all persons, within the State, who have trees and plants infected with disease or infested with insect pests: ce 5 dangerously injurious to the life of trees and plants. The penalty for a violation of the Agricultural Law is stated in section 37 is as follows: “ Every person violating any of the provisions of the agricul- tural law shall forfeit to the people of the state of New York the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dol- lars for the first violation and not less than one hundred dollars or more than two hundred dollars for the second and each subse- quent violation.” * * * Brief descriptions of some of the enemies to orchard trees and vines are given with illustrations. Other figures are also given to help in identifying the more serious pests and to demonstrate the beneficial effects or proper spraying. Thankful acknowledgment is hereby made to the United States Department of Agriculture, the Pennsylvania Department of Ag- riculture, and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Maryland, Ohio, Michigan and New York, for the loan of cuts to use in this hastily prepared bulletin. | Attention is also called to the useful formulas for insect and fungous diseases, the lime and sulphur mixture and the Bordeaux mixture. The former has been proven effective in combating San José scale, and the latter, when arsenical poisons are added, is the almost universally approved fungicide for the prevention of dis- eases and for destroying insects affecting the leaves of trees and plants. There are many other fcrmulas as there are many other hindrances to horticulture. Spraying has become a very neces- sary part of fruit growing. It is essential that an orchardist should know the cause or nature of pests that are destructive to the end that proper spraying or other treatment may be applied. BORDEAUX MIXTURE. (A Valuable Formula.) Five pounds copper sulphate, Five pounds best stone lime. Forty gallons water. This mixture is a standard fungicide. It is used as a preventive of such diseases as leaf spot, leaf blight, canker, leaf curl, 6° plum pockets, grape rots, mildews, etc., and should be ap- plied in a fine spray over the bodies and branches of the trees and on the leaves as they grow, say every ten to twenty days, until the fruit is half grown, after which the amount of water used should be sixty or seventy gallons. After the first spraying which is done before the leaf buds start, one-half pound of Paris green, or other poison, should be added to each fifty gallons of Bordeaux mixture, to poison leaf-eating insects. Bordeaux mixture should be prepared as follows: Dissolve five pounds of copper sulphate by suspending in a bag and im- mersing near the surface of about six gallons of water. Slake five pounds of lime, using only the amount of water necessary to keep it covered, and before mixing the materials dilute each to twenty gallons; a finer grained combination results than when lime and copper sulphate meet without dilution. If conveniences are not at hand for holding both the materials in dilution, the lime should be diluted to full amount in the tank, and the copper sul- phate solution poured into this, as the resultant mixture remains in suspension better than if the operation be reversed. Lime is so variable in quality, that the use of a test of Bordeaux mixture is advised. When the mixture is thoroughly stirred, take a cupful, into which pour a few drops of a ten-per-cent. solution of yellow prussate of potash; if the effect is a reddish or brown coloring, more slaked lime should be added to the Bordeaux mixture. SAN JOSE SCALE. (Aspidiotus Perniciosus.) ‘This is regarded the worst insect pest of the orchards. Its spread from a few limited areas-now threatens entry to the great orchard sections of the State, if indeed it has not already taken possession. . It is necessary to suppress San José scale or the damage to com- mercial orcharding will be great to the point of ruin. The most serious obstacle to its control is to be found in sections where neg- ligent orchardists, owners or tenants, will not put up the necessary fight. 7 While some have been waiting for natural enemies of the scale to destroy it, like lady bugs and parasitic fungi, others have been experimenting to find a more complete method. Within five years it has been demonstrated that San José scale can be kept in subjec- tion and the fruit and trees saved at nominal cost. Furthermore, the proper preparation and application of the lime-sulphur solution has proved beneficial to the trees in many ways, especially in assisting in the control of fungous diseases, like apple and pear scab, the leaf curl of the peach and leaf pockets of the plum. LIME AND SULPHUR SOLUTION. © The lime-sulphur solution is made as follows: Twenty pounds of best unslacked lime, seventeen pounds of sifted sulphur (flour or flowers). Heat fifteen to twenty gallons of water in an iron ealdron. Put the lime in the water, causing a violent boil- ing; add the sulphur, stirring the mass continually. If too much water is used, boiling over ensues; if too little, the mass becomes dry, and an additional supply of hot water should be added. Continue boiling for an hour, or until the lime and sul- phur have united, at which time the color will be a deep amber; dilute with water to make the quantity about fifty gallons. Strain before using; give pumps and nozzles an immediate cleaning when spraying ceases. Where live steam is available it may be used to great advantage for cooking the mixture. Apply any time when trees are dormant, but not when the temperature is so low that the spray freezes when applied. The best results have followed application just before buds start to swell in the spring. A second application to cover places untouclied is advised even when much care has been used at the first spraying. This solution should be kept warm or hot until used, as the mixture deteriorates if allowed . to cool and stand over from day to day. ' ‘(A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE. This is an important insect of the bark louse family. It was first discovered in America in the San José valley of California, where it wrought great havoc, and from which locality its name was derived. In 1880 it received the specific name of aspidiotus 8 perniciosus because of its destructive habits, rapid multiplication and its resistance to remedial treatment. Until August of 1893 none of these insects were found east of the Rocky mountains, but in that year young trees were found dying in an orchard at Char- Icttesville, Va., and investigation showed them to have been grown in a nursery block close to some plums which the proprietor had purchased in California. Other shipments had been made, and it was soon found that infested stock had been widely scattered. As the female insect is wingless, hence slow in its natural spread, it soon became apparent that infested nursery stock offered the greatest opportunity for extended dissemination Nearly all the States have passed stringent laws relative to the inspection of nurseries and orchards to prevent the spread of this and other pests into uninfested localities. - . The laws of many States provide that in addition to inspection the nurserymen shall fumigate all stock shipped, and owners of orchards are required to treat or destroy their infested trees. PEACH YELLOWS. Yellows is a most important disease. It has been very destruc- tive to the peach industry in several States and has gained a foot- hold in the great peach belts of New York State. This disease is believed to be contagious. It is transmitted to other trees by budding, or by growing seedlings from seed of dis- eased trees. It is unwise to replant peach trees on the same land from which diseased trees have been removed. One-year-old-nur- sery trees never show the disease. Yellows may be recognized by - the premature coloring and mottled appearance of the fruit and the high color and red markings in the flesh from the pit outward. The fruit appears mature but is insipid in flavor. New buds develop on the trunk and branches and the buds that should remain dormant over winter often open in the fall. A yellowing of peach foliage so often seen in an orchard is not necessarily an evidence of this disease. The cause of yellows is not understood, notwithstanding it has been subject to many years’ investigation. The only known remedy is to dig out and burn the entire tree on — the first discovery of the disease. LITTLE PEACH. This disease is also found in the peach belts of New York State, No better name for it has yet been found, as the cause of the dis- ease is still obscure. Little peach disease does not show in the trees as plainly at its first appearance as yellows, and its presence is at times attributed to a lack of moisture or fertility in the soil. Apparently healthy trees will blossom, the fruit may set well . and while still small stop growing, never ripen and eventually drop. Only a single branch may be affected one year, but in years following the disorder will cover the tree. As with the peach yellows, the only remedy is the utter destruc- tion of the entire tree by burning. This disease is believed to be both contagious and infectious and in every way as serious as yel- lows, though its extent in this State, so far as known, does not equal 50 per cent. of the latter disease. PEACH ROSETTE. This contagious disease is not known in New York State but seems confined to the Southern States. It appears-in the spring and the trees die within a year. The buds instead of growing into branches form tufts or tight clusters from two to four inches long. The cause of this disease is unknown, and the only remedy the - unquestioned one of burning. LEAF CURL OF THE PEACH, AND LEAF POCKETS OF THE PLUM. The cause of this disease is a fungus belonging to the family of exoascus, the same fungus that causes the disease known as plum pockets in the leaves of plum trees. The presence of this fungus, when unecombatted, results in a good deal of injury to orchard trees. The fungus once having attacked a tree is so persistent that the tree eventually dies. The trouble appears soon after 10 the foliage expands, in thickened and distorted leaves. The fungus lives over winter in the buds and twigs of the affected branches and grows out with the new leaves in the spring. It has been recently found that spraying the trees with the lime-sulphur solution, which is recommended for suppressing the spread of San José scale, has proved exceeding useful in checking this fungus, CROWN GALL. (Dendrophagus globosus.) This fungous disease of the apple, almond, peach, pear, grape, raspberry, blackberry, walnut and some other plants is most seri- ous. Crown gall and the galls produced by aphids are found fre- quently on the roots of the same trees. The crown gall may be present in trees or plants and if other kinds of trees are planted on the same land they are almost sure to eontract the disease. yee Crown gall may be found on the roots of one-year seedlings, on the roots of the older trees, at the surface of the ground, and occa- sionally two or three feet up on the trunks of the affected trees. They are of all sizes up to two, three or more inches in diameter. One-year peach trees affected with crown gall will not usually live to bearing age, and the injury to other plants and trees is very serious, All galls on the roots are not crown galls, and a distinction be- tween them may be made. The galls caused by aphids are usually knotty and very hard, while crown gall is rather soft, its tissue being brainlike in forma- tion. It sometimes appears as a warty formation on the larger roots or collar of the trees, and again it may be on the smaller roots, spherical in form and_one inch or more in diameter. Crown gall is spread from infested stumps, which should be dug and burned. In some cases a cure may be effected by cutting off the galls and painting the cut surfaces with a paste made of blue- stone and lime. Galls produced by aphids are not apt to increase in size if the insects are destroyed by an application of kerosene emulsion or strong decoctions of tobacco, sgl PEAR BLIGHT, FIRE BLIGHT AND TWIG BLIGHT. (Bacillus amylovorus.) This disease is known to be of bacterial origin. It appears in the spring on the blossoms. Some clusters turn black and the dis- _ ease is carried from flower to flower by bees or other insects. From the flowers the disease spreads to leaves and twigs. It at- tacks the tender growth of the apple, pear, apricot, quince, rasp- berry and blackberry. This disease is exceedingly destructive to pear trees. It appears not regularly, but at times is very destruc- tive to both nursery and orchard trees. Some years comparatively little damage is done, while other years large areas of orchard trees will be-destroyed. The only remedy that is known to be of use is the cutting out, a few inches below the blighted portion, all the branches or Jimbs affected. Refuse trimmings should be burned. Although many remedies have been suggested for this disease, the only precautionary measure that is now regarded of any value is to avoid fertilizing the trees with stable manures or those rich in nitrogen. Anything that tends to a moderate growth and thor- ough ripening of the trees is desirable. This disease also attacks blossoms and twigs of the apple and quince trees and spreads in the young growth, killing the terminal twigs. BLACK KNOT. (Plowrightia morbosa.) This fungous disease of the plum and cherry if neglected be- comes very destructive. Extensive areas of plum orchards have been entirely destroyed and damage to the duke and morello types of cherry trees has been very great. The first evidence of the presence of the disease is in olive eolored, smooth or velvet-like spots on the branches in the spring which extend upon the new growth. These spots develop into rough, irregular knots and become dried and rough by winter. In the spring the disease is spread by the spores, which escape in great numbers from the minute cells that form on the olive- colored spots and young knots. 12 The old knots contain the spores, which live over winter and cause the spread of the disease in the spring. Treatment.—As the knots appear early in the growing season, they should be removed at once. To control this disease it is neces- sary to cbserve its first appearance and cut it out. No knots should be permitted to remain on a tree a day after discovery. Branches bearing knots should be cut off at a point several inches below the swellings or knots and immediately burned, not left lying on the ground. Wild plum and cherry trees growing in the vicinity of an or- chard should be as carefully watched as the orchard itself and all evidence of this disease destroyed. Spraying with copper preparations, like Bordeaux mixture, may be helpful to prevent black knot, but should not be depended upon. APPLE SCAB (Fusicladium Dendriticum) and PEAR SCAB (Fusicladium Pirinum). These diseases, while not regarded dangerously injurious to the life of the trees, are very destructive to the fruits. On the leaves the diseases are often called leaf-blight. Black spots are formed on the fruit and as the spots increase in size the fruit will crack open, and in some instances becomes one-sided, Scab is the most important fungous disease of apples and pears, but the extent of the injury varies from year to year. It yields readily to treatment with Bordeaux mixture, applied when the buds are swelling and again just before blossoming, and the third time after the petals have fallen. BLACK-ROT OF THE GRAPE. (Laestadia Bidwellu.) (Guignardia Bidwelli.) Of the numerous fungous diseases to which the grape is sub- ject, no other is so destructive to fruit in this State as this. When conditions are favorable for its spread, the fruit of the season may 13 be entirely ruined in a few days. In places where grape growing "was once profitable, it ceased to be so as soon as this disease appeared. The disease attacks all parts of the vine except the roots. It first appears on the leaves and young shoots in brownish spots. The fruit is usually attacked when only half grown. The de- fective berries show brown spots which rapidly enlarge unti! the whole berry is involved. The spores of the fungus are discharged when the affected grapes are wet and spread to other parts of the vineyard. Another form of the same fungus is found in the diseased grape leaves that are left on the vines or on the ground. In this form the spores remain dormant until spring, thus carrying the disease over the winter. Treatment for this fungus, to be successful, must be very thor- ough from year to year. Affected leaves and fruit should be gath- ered carefully and destroyed and all trimmings from diseased vines should be burned. The vines should be sprayed several times dur- ing the growing season, using the copper formulas. In a wet sea- son spraying alone will not control the disease. It is found that the most careful vineyard sanitation is necessary in all the vine yards of an affected area. In large vineyards it is recommended that all leaves and rotten fruit on the ground should be first heavily sprayed, to the point of soaking, with a solution of copper sulphate and carbolic acid and then ploughed under as deeply as possible. The following cultivation should be frequent and light — not deep enough to bring the covered diseased leaves or fruit to the surface. Spraying of the vines must be done four or five times during the season with Bordeaux mixture, or until the fruit is the size of peas and after that by using the ammonical copper compound. GRAPE ROOT-WORM. (Fidia Viticida.) This is a very destructive pest in vineyards. Much damage has been caused in the grape belt of Western New York, where ex- tensive vineyards have been killed. 14 The insect has been found in small numbers in various portions of the State, but its depredations have been mostly along Lake Erie, in Chautauqua county, in the past twelve or fifteen years. Those interested should learn the habits of the fidia, for it is capable of ruining a vineyard in two seasons. The adult insect is a grayish-brown beetle and may be found eating peculiar chain- like holes in the leaves in July and August. The eggs laid at this time hatch and the grubs drop into the ground, where they feed upon the roots. Grubs may be found at the roots almost any month of the year. This is a difficult insect to control and no single one of the known remedies should alone be relied upon, but rather all should be diligently applied. Spraying the leaves at the time the beetle is feeding with some form of arsenic will accomplish a little. The beetles are not heavy feeders and as they remain on the leaves but a few days the poison should be as concentrated as possible. Too much Paris green will . injure the foliage, therefore, arsenate - lead, 10 pounds to 100 gallons of water, is better. The beetles are easily jarred from the leaves and can be cain in sheets first spread under the vines. Speeial devices are ar- ranged for this work. Thorough, deep cultivation in the early fall at the time the fidia is in the pupal state will crush as many as can be reached. This insect multiples rapidly in neglected vineyards and thorough cultivation and fertilizing are desirable. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. Plate 1. San José scale on pear; same on branch, natural size ; scales enlarged. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Ento- mology. ) Plate 2. (a) Scale on twig, natural size. (b) Much enlarged, showing scale in all life condi- tions. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Ento- mology.) Plate Plate Plate Plate ~ Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate 10. tt. 12. 15 A single adult female San José scale, very much en- larged. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. ) A single adult male San José scale, very much en- larged. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.) (a) Beetle, largely magnified. (6) Larva, magnified. (c) Ventral view. (d) Lady beetles devouring live scale. (Pennsylvania and U. S. Department of Agricul- ture. ) Apple tree sprayed with lime and sulphur in April. (New York Agricultural Experiment Station.) Same as plate 6 photographed, November 8th, showing adherence of the application made in April. Twigs from same as plate 6 photographed, November 8th. Upper figure illustrates peach trees infested with San José seale and leaf curl, unsprayed. Lower figure shows good results of spraying. (New York Agricultural Experiment Station.) Upper row of pears from trees, unsprayed. Lower row of pears from similar trees, properly sprayed. (New York Agricultural Experiment Station.) Oyster shell bark-louse. (a, b) Females, largely magnified; natural size in- . dicated by I. (c) Female scales on twig, natural size, (d) Male scale, enlarged. (e) Male scales on twig, natural size. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. ) Scurfy bark-louse. : Infested twigs, (a) female, (b) male scales. (c) Female scale, greatly enlarged. (d) Male seale, enlarged. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 16 Apple tree infested with scurfy bark-louse. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.) Base of infested peach tree, showing gummy mass, the result of beach tree borers. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. ) Moths of peach tree borer, natural size. The upper one and one at the right are females... (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. ) Woolly apple aphis. (a,b) Work on the roots. (c) Enlarged figure of the louse. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology.) Woolly apple aphis. (a) Agamic female. (6) Larva. (c) Pupa. (d) Winged female, enlarged. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. ) Fruit tree bark-beetle. . The figure at the right, bark removed, shows gallaries in the twig enlarged. The figure at the left shows markings in gallaries and bark. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) The grape root-worm (fidia viticida). Grape vine killed by grubs. All fine feeding roots eaten off and the main root scarred by the grubs. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity.) Grape vine fidia beetles, or adults of the grape root- worms. Beetles of natural size on the upper cut; enlarged in the lower portion of the picture. All from life. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. @ Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate 21. 22. 23. 24, 25. 26. 17 Characteristic work of beetles on grape leaves. (f) Beetle feeding on the green fruit. All natural size. (t) From a.thin-leaved variety of grape. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. Eggs of grape root-worm beetle. Natural size as seen on grape canes above, and much enlarged below. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. The tender pupae of the grape root-worm in its earthen cell, enlarged. Natural size at N. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. Grape root-worms; natural size and enlarged. (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. ) Black knot on plum. \ (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) Peach yellows. (A, B) Fruit from yellows affected tree, showing surface and flesh spotted and streaked with red. (C) Premature ripened fruit on an affected branch which is attached to one bearing healthy foliage and fruit (D). (a) Is a stub of tree budded with buds from yel- lows affected tree, showing the characteristic growth due to the disease which has also affected lower branch b. | (a’) Affected tree showing the dormant buds which are giving rise to bunches of wirelike twigs and narrow leaves. | (b’) One of those clusters enlarged. (c’) Healthy leaf by the side of the branch bear- ing diseased foliage, showing the contrast in size. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate Plate 27. 28. 29. 30. dl. 32. 33. 34, 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 18 Peach tree in the last stages of the yellows. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) An eleven-year-old Elberta peach tree, unsprayed, de- foliated by leaf curl; no fruit. (Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.) Elberta peach tree from same orchard figured in plate 28, sprayed in the spring. - Foliage and fruit crop saved by treatment. | (Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.) Leaf curl of the peach, caused by the fungus exoacus deformis. . (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. ) Upper figure, portion of unsprayed orchard. Lower figure, portion of same orchard sprayed. (New York Agricultural Experiment Station.) Peach leaf curl at the left. Healthy at the right. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Anthracnose of the raspberry and blackberry. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Grapes affected by anthracnose, figure 1. Figures 2 and 3, largely magnified portions of the diseased fruit. Figures 4 and 5 spores enlarged. (U. S. Department of Agriculture.) Pear scab (fusicaladvum pirinum. ) (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Pear scab, on twigs. Apple seab (ventura pomt). (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Brown rot of the plum (sclerotinia fructigena). Plums affected with brown rot found on trees in Feb- ruary showing mummified condition. These plums still retained the ability to give off spores. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Root galls of the peach. A disease affecting the roots of the peach, apple, rasp- berry and other fruits, 19 (Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- versity. ) Platz 40. Black-knot (plowrightia morbosa). (a) Mature knots on plum branches, (b) Magnified section of the knot. (c) Spore stalks which grow on the surface of the knot when young and give rise to the sum- mer spores c’. (d) Magnified section of winter spore case, one of which is shown very highly magnified at e. (f) Several of the two-celled winter spores. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate 41. Downy mildew of the grape. The upper portion of the leaves shows brown spots. Lower side shows whitish downy growth. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate 42. A bunch of grapes, many of which have rotted with the black rot fungus. (Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate 48. Peach tree showing gall at the crown. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.) Plate 44. Crown Gall, illustrating its appearahhce on different trees and plants. | (United States Department of Agriculture.) The following four plates are intended to show convenient appliances for the proper preparation and boiling of the lime and sulphur mixtures. Other essential tools are, fine metal strainers, leather or rubber jackets and mittens and water proof covering for the horses. Sound hose and tight couplings are also necessary. Plate 45. Whenever it is found necessary to prepare the lime and sulphur mixture in large quantities an outfit ‘similar to this may be used to advantage. Changes adapted to the situation may be adopted. Storuge tanks may be provided, and the boiler itself may be placed on wheels. 20 Plate 46. 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