. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQTI BETTER FRUIT Page Si Anuther ticlil of Lawlnn licrries was sprayed with 4-4-50 bordeaux. Two appli- cations were made. The first was appHed just before the blossoms began to open and the seeond just before the fruit began to ripen. The berries were thor- oughly inspected on eight different days from August 3 to August 23, inclusive. There was an a\ erage of twenty-nine per cent diseased fruit on the sprayed rows and forty-one per cent diseased fruit on the checks. A few hills of Kittatinny plants were sprayed twice, in the same manner as described for the La
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQTI BETTER FRUIT Page Si Anuther ticlil of Lawlnn licrries was sprayed with 4-4-50 bordeaux. Two appli- cations were made. The first was appHed just before the blossoms began to open and the seeond just before the fruit began to ripen. The berries were thor- oughly inspected on eight different days from August 3 to August 23, inclusive. There was an a\ erage of twenty-nine per cent diseased fruit on the sprayed rows and forty-one per cent diseased fruit on the checks. A few hills of Kittatinny plants were sprayed twice, in the same manner as described for the Lawton. Three inspec- tions were made (August 3, 10 and 13). The sprayed fruit gave thirty per cent diseased fruit, while the unsprayed gave forty per cent. During all these inspections it was to be noted that the number of drupels on diseased fruit from sprayed plants were less numerous than those on diseased fruit from unsprayed plants. Anthracnose is caused by a small form of fungus. Distribution of the fungus is accom- plished by the spores. Anthracnose attacks the Snyder. Kit- tatinny and Himalaya Giant blackberries, the Lucretia dewberry. Loganberry, Ant- werp and Cuthbert red raspberries and the Cumberland black raspberry. The disease is very injurious to Snyder and Kittatinny blackberries, attacking the stems, leaves and fruit. A microscopic study and inoculation experiments show that the same fungus occurs in the spots on stems, leaves and fruit. The fungus attacks the current year's growth of shoots when they are six inches to one foot in height, and later. Spots do not occur on the bases of these shoots. The disease does not spread on the stems and its leaves after the branches form, since the canes and its leaves are infested, while the laterals and their leaves are usually free from the disease. On the Snyder and Kittatinny black- berries the fungus spreads from the stems and leaves to the fruit as soon as the young fruit forms. The disease continues to spread on the
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