This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
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We are glad to hear from J. H. Watts, of Rochester, New York, and to learn that apples, the Northern Spy and Red Canada especially, will be uncommonly fine this season. We shall not object to " the ripe specimens'1 at the proper time. It is gratifying to know that there must be fruit enough this year for all to partake - an abundance and variety, and at prices which no other country can approach.
There has been throughout this state, an unparalleled blight in the tops of apple trees. At first I thought it was the Scolytus Pyri, or some similar insect. But I have never been able to obtain the least proof of the existence of an insect, or to find any marks of his ravages whatever, and many facts induce me to think it is not an insect.
Nor was there any unusual drouth or severity of winter that could have produced it. The winter was so mild and favorable here, that tender shrubs never stood it better, and the ground at the time of the blight, was unusually moist for that season of the year. The springs were higher than they are now, or have been since.
Indeed, the season has varied from ordinary seasons so far as I know, but in one single respect. It was generally quite cool until July, after which we had an unusual number of excessively hot days, the thermometer ranging from ninety to one hundred degrees in ordinary exposures, and from one hunded and thirty to one hundred and forty degrees in the sunshine, through at least two days, when I noticed it. Still, in alternate days, it frequently and suddenly sunk several degrees. Did the excessive heat, or the sudden changes, or both, or neither, do the mischief.? I cannot tell. At any rate, there was scarce a terminal branch of an apple tree in this county that was not more or less affected, and some of them several feet down below the last years growth. On my grounds, it affected young nursery trees from one to three years old, worse than older trees. At first, the leaves near the end turned black, and usually, by cutting the stem, a black and dead spot would be fonud below the dying leaves, of greater or less extent. Sometimes these black patches of hark and wood, would be found at some distance below any dead leaves, but the leaves were sure at last, to die down to that point.
But it passed away without any serious injury to the trees, so far as can now be seen.
People talk and write, as I have done, about " the blight," but I am convinced that this form of blight has never been in this part of the country before - whether caused by heat, or cold, or insects, or what not.
 
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