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Excerpt from Report of the Fruit-Growers' Association of Ontario, for the Year 1870 Mr. Ross said that last season was very wet, and the fruit on only two of his plum trees was affected by the rot, and these were shaded by other trees; this year the rot spread from those affected last year to the trees adjacent, while the trees in another part of his garden wholly escaped hence he thinks that the rot is infectious in some way, and that if once introduced, if no way of stopping it can be discovered, it will continue to spread until the fruit on all the trees in the vicinity is affected. Mr. W. H. Boulton, of Toronto, said that the fruit on trees standing in the open ground in his garden was not affected, but on trees at the south side of a board fence the plums had rotted very considerably. Mr. Arnold, of Paris, believed it to be an infectious fungus, which under favourable conditions grew upon the fruit, causing it to rot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.