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a label wire. Girdling may cause the premature dropping 

 of the leaves and the advanced development of the buds 

 in autumn which is also characteristic of yellows in many 

 cases. Such trees are likely to start growth and blossom 

 the next season in advance of others not so affected. Winter 

 injury to the tree, however, may also cause some of these 

 symptoms. 



Means of control of yellows. 



Though many methods of curing peach-yellows have been 

 exploited, no authentic case of a tree actually infected with 

 this disease having been cured is recorded. The one effec- 

 tive method of handling diseased trees is to root them out 

 with the least possible delay on the first indication of the 

 trouble and burn them at once. When this plan of action 

 is followed with absolutely rigid adherence to details, little 

 need be feared from the encroachment of the disease. The 

 entire tree must be destroyed. Cutting off the limb or 

 limbs which show the first symptoms in the fruit ripening 

 prematurely, avails nothing in the control of the trouble. 

 Curiously enough, a young tree can be planted in the very 

 place occupied by a yellows tree, immediately on the re- 

 moval of the latter, if it happens to be during the proper 

 time for planting peach trees, without more danger of its 

 becoming infected than if it is planted elsewhere in the 

 orchard. 



Little-peach (Cause unknown) 



This disease has been attracting more or less attention 

 from peach-growers and fruit disease specialists for the past 

 twenty-five years. It now occurs more or less generally 

 in Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Ontario, 



