252 Peach-Growing 



An injury supposedly due also to this insect sometimes 

 occurs early in the spring to peach stock budded the pre- 

 vious season, just as the dormant bud starts into growth. 

 As a result, the bud which has apparently passed the winter 

 in good condition fails to develop, evidently being killed 

 by this mite. 



Methods of control of hud-mite. 



The life history of this mite does not seem to have been 

 fully determined, and means of control have not been well 

 worked out. Promising results have been claimed from 

 spraying in the dormant season with a lime-sulfur mixture. 



Good results have followed wise pruning after the laterals 

 have begun to develop subsequent to the killing of the 

 terminal buds. By selecting the best branches and remov- 

 ing all others not desired in forming the top of the tree, 

 a fairly high percentage of saleable trees have been secured 

 from stock that would otherwise have had little or no 

 market value. 



Other insects 



Many other insects besides those that have been dis- 

 cussed attack the peach, either the tree or the fruit. These 

 other insect pests are, for the most part, local in their dis- 

 tribution, or their principal host is something other than 

 the peach, and the attacks on the latter are incidental or 

 perhaps accidental. Or, if they are essentially peach in- 

 sects, their work as such is rarely observed, and they require 

 no individual consideration, being held in subjection in the 

 regular treatment for the major insect pests. 



It should be pointed out that new insects appear from 

 time to time, or for some reason an insect that has been 



