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The spray to prevent curl-leaf was apparently unnecessary, since the disease, so 

 prevalent in other years, has this season been conspicuously absent, even in un- 

 sprayed orchards. 



As has been stated in previous reports, the fungus usually so injurious to the 

 young wood and foliage of sei'rate peaches, has been found to be amenable to a 

 spray of Bordeaux mixture. This fungus also has been entirely absent during this 

 year. 



Except as already noted, neither fungi nor insects have been observed attacliing 

 the peach during the season. 



As a remedy for the unprecedented drouth, the soil has been kept mellow by 

 the persistent use of the cultivator, with the effect that the trees have been main- 

 tained in vigorous growth and their friiit developed more perfectly than had been 

 anticipated. 



The productiveness as given in the following table is that of the current season. 

 It is given without regard to the size, age, or condition of the trees. 



Many of the varieties on trial and noted in the following tables were received 

 without history or description, and hence with no possible means of determining 

 their identity. In a few cases their identity or incorrectness has incidentally be- 

 trayed itself. Quite possibly, however, other cases of spuriousness yet remain un- 

 detected. 



