FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 



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the pit, is full of radiating streaks of red. The surface of the fruit may 

 be smooth or considerably roughened and the flesh more or less stringy 

 and very insipid. The leaves may be yellowish pale or reddish rusty- 

 green in color, usually rolling and drooping. In advanced stages, 

 numerous finely branched shoots bearing many slender sickly leaves, 



CUTTING OUT BLIGHT. 



Cutting out blight In a quince tree. The blight attacks pears, apples and quinces. Note the bottle 

 containing the disinfecting material, and the sponge to apply same. 



appear on the trunk or main limbs and sometimes in the extremities 

 of the branches. Finally the tree dies. 



Winter injury to the bark of the trunk or main limbs, mechanical in- 

 jury by mice, rabbits, peach borers, cultivators, etc., or a serious lack 

 of moisture or nitrogen in the soil may discolor the foliage and cause 

 premature ripening of fruit and should not be mistaken for '^Yellows." 



