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The cause appv'ared to be a fungus, but its identity is still 

 unknown because we were unable to cultivate it artificially with 

 success. It made but a feeble growth and produced no spores. 

 In the spring we planted some of the diseased trees hoping that 

 the fungus might fruit on the dead branches; but in this, also, 

 we were disappointed. 



The owner made an attempt to save the affected trees by 

 removing them from the cellar, washing them and pruning away 

 the diseased branches and then returning them again to the cel- 

 lar; but without avail. New points of infection appeared and 

 by spring most of the trees were w^orthless. 



Evidently, there is danger in throwing sand on wet trees in 

 the nursery cellar. It is worthy of note that the sand had been 

 used in the cellar continuously for several years. 



Double Peaches. — Although it is not a pathological condition, 

 we wish to mention that double fruits of peach were unusually 

 abundant last season. On June 6 we observed double peaches 

 very plentiful in a large orchard at Lodi. They occurred on 

 many trees of different varieties in various parts of the orchard. 

 Often, fully 25 per ct. of the fruits were double, and occasionally 

 triple fruits were found. The foreman told us that he had seen 

 quadruple fruits, but we could find none. As a rule the two 

 parts were of about the same size, but sometimes they were 

 very unequal. The majorty of them fell from the trees while 

 small. 



On a branch of an Early Crawford tree at Rushville we counted 

 Gl peaches, of which 37 were double and 2 were triple. Another 

 small branch on the same tree bore 12 fruits of which 9 were 

 double and 2 triple. 



Hail Injury. — Some observations were made on peach trees 

 which had experienced a severe hailstorm two years previous. 

 Upon shaving off the outer layer of bark the inner bark was 

 found to contain numerous brown, corky spots, which were not 

 externally visible. No gum exuded from such injuries or from 

 the wounds made by larger hailstones which broke the bark. 

 Neither did any of the hailstone wounds show any tendency to 

 develop into knots or cankers. 



