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The foliage is also a lighter green or even a yellowish green 

 during the progress of the disease. The fruit is very much 

 reduced in size and does not mature. Usually the fourth 

 season there is but little fruit, and the tree develops a very 

 weak, sickly appearance and generally begins to die, or may 

 fail entirely before the end of the fourth year. 



In individual trees and in different regions the rate of 

 progress of the malady may vary more or less, some branches 

 dying earlier than here indicated, but in general it usually 

 requires about four seasons to complete the destruction of 

 a tree if left to its natural course. 



Methods of control of little-peach. 



The same heroic measures described for yellows are 

 equally effective in controlling this disease. No other 

 known method of treatment is of any avail. 



Peach-rosette (Cause unknown) 



The cause of this disease is unknown but it has some 

 characteristics in common with "yellows" and "little- 

 peach" and probably belongs to the same general group of 

 maladies. However, its progress is much more rapid and 

 its climax much more quickly reached than is the case with 

 either of these diseases. Rosette has existed more or less 

 in certain sections of the South and possibly in some other 

 parts of the country for many years, though it is now of 

 rather rare occurrence and is attracting comparatively 

 little attention. 



Course of development. 



The evidence of the presence of this disease is the develop- 

 ment in early spring of "rosettes" of leaves from the leaf- 



