Peach-tree Borer. 



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Fall. I found more tliaii one worm's nest snugly Iniilt within the 

 wra}3per. If left on the year around j as was our practice, the bark 

 becomes bleached and unliealthv. But the worst thino; was that 

 they afforded such shelter for the woolly aphis tliat in late summer 

 the whole trunk beneath the wrapper became blue with them." 



Note on a Fungous Disease of the Peach tree Borer. — While 

 digging out peach-tree borers in June, 1900, we found one dead 

 borer presenting the 

 appearance s h o w n in 

 figure 55. Its body was 

 filled w i t h a f uno;ous 

 growth v/hicli also pro- 

 truded from the head 

 in four white root-like 

 growths. AVe could not 

 determine if the fungus 

 was the primary cause of 

 the death of the borer- 

 It w^as an interestino; 

 lookino^ borer and 



worthy of more than this 55. — A curious fungus found growing m a peack- 

 brief note. ^^^^ borer, ticice natural size. 



Suimndry : Even Missouri gas tar did not injure our New 

 York peach trees, and it kept out practically all of the borers. 

 First try tar on only a few trees. 



Stedman's wire cage was. no more effective in New York than 

 any other form of such a cage. Such wire cages afford no protec- 

 tion against the peach-tree boter. 



Stedman's Avooden wrappers were not more effectual than cheaper 

 paper wrappers. 



MAPtK YERNOK SLINGERLAND. 



