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Plate I. Peaches affected with brown-rot, showing the destructive work of the 



disease and the rotten, moldy appearance of the fruit Frontispi ece 



II. Two crates of Elbert a peaches picked from the experimental plats at 



Fori Valley, Ga., on July 9, 1909, shipped by refrigerator car to 



New York, and then by express to Washington, D. ('., showing the 



difference in the amount of brown-rot developed 28 



III. Peach scab. Fig. 1. — Two unsprayed Elberta peaches affected with 



scab, showing the black spols and cracks produced by the disease. 



Fig. 2. — Crop from an unsprayed Elberta peach tree, showing all 



the fruit affected with scab and 86 per cent of it unmerchantable. 



Sleepy Creek, W. Va.. August 27, 1909 28 



IV. Teach scab. Fig. 1. — Crop of Elberta peaches from a tree sprayed 



once with self-boiled lime-sulphur. Good, merchantable fruit in 



the pile and unmerchantable, scabby fruit on the notebook at the 



top. Sleepy Creek. W. Va., August 27, 1909. Fig. 2.— The same 



unsprayed crop shown in Plate III, figure 2, sorted for the market. 



The large pile on the right is unmerchantable, scabby fruit, that 



on the left representing all that was suitable for packing 28 



TEXT FIGURE. 



Fig. 1.— An old brown-rot mummy with the cup-shaped bodies (apothecia) of 



the fungus, in which myriads of ascospores are produced 12 



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