Excerpt from The Gardener's Chronicle, Vol. 50: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects; July to December, 1911
In the case of both Apple and Plum trees planted last winter, the drought and aphis attack were very destructive, the drought preventing the trees from grow ing strongly and overcoming the pest. An early aphis attack did much injury to a field of Apples planted in the winter of 1909-10; but by means of two sprayings and stripping off the curled leaves the injury was much mitigated. The greatest damage has been done to Beauty of Bath Apples, planted in 1908 - 9. This variety is especially subject to aphis, and the effect of the attack upon it, in spite of two sprayings, is very pro nounced. Many of the young trees, which were pictures of vigorous growth in the Spring, had all their shoots covered with tightly-curled leaves before the end of June, while others were partially affected in a like manner. Those. Which suffered most can never form good trees, in my opinion, and it may be necessary to dig them up, and plant new trees, or graft them afresh. The masses of curled leaves have been stripped off the shoots by hand and thoroughly crushed, as this plan was found beneficial in the summer of 1909; and in some cases the stripped part has been cut back to a sound bud by way of experiment. Worcester Pearmain is also much injured, and other varieties have suffered to a less extent.
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