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Midseason varieties.—-The midseason varieties of peaches, such as 
Reeves, Belle, Early Crawford, Elberta, -—Late Crawford, Chairs 
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Fox, and Beers Smock, should be sprayed as follows: 
(1) With arsenate of lead alone, about 10 days after the petals fall, or at the time the 
calyxes are shedding. (Fig. 14.) 
Fia. 14.—Young peaches, showing the earliest and latest stages at which the first arsenate of lead treatment 
should be made. 
(2) With self-boiled lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead, two weeks later, or four to 
five weeks after the petals have been shed. 
(3) With self-boiled lime-sulphur alone, four to five weeks before the fruit ripens. 
Late varieties.—The Salway, Heath, Bilyeu, and varieties with a 
similar ripening period should be given the same treatment prescribed 
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