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effect experimental work when we are not there to see may be more 

 comforting, but we can never be certain that trees bearing attractive 

 fruit are not more or less pilfered unless hedged in by some impassa- 

 ble barrier. 



"LITTLE PEACH." 



A strange trio of diseases we have, says a writer in the MicMgan 

 Fruit Groioer. "Yellows" throughout the country, "little peach" in 

 Michigan and "rosette" in Georgia are all of very similar nature. The 

 secret of nearly every fruit-tree disease has been discovered ; the fun- 

 gus, spore or bacterium has been captured and has been carefully 

 studied, although some of them, such as the pear blight microbe, do 

 not yield to any treatment with which we are at i3resent acquainted. 



There has nothing yet so baffled the investigator as "yellows" and 

 its two brethren. "Little peach," a disease closely related to "yellows," 

 and which is more prominent in the southern x^ortion of our peach belt, 

 seems to be gaining ground. In response to an appeal to the depart- 

 ment of agriculture, an expert, probably Dr. Erwin F. Smith, will come 

 to Michigan to investigate the disease. Doctor Smith, it will be re- 

 membered, wrote a monograph upon "yellows," and is probably the 

 most able man to take hold of this mysterious disease in the country. 



SPRAYING FOR PEACH LEAF-CURL. 



From the Canadian Horticulturist. 



Mr. W. M. Orr, in 1898, was the first in Canada to try whitewash- 

 ing his peach trees in winter season with a view of preventing the 

 curl. His success was very marked, and was given to the public in 

 his annual report. This spring Mr. A. H. Pettit, of Grimsby, sprayed 

 his large peach orchard first in February, and then again iu March, 

 using for first application one peck of lime to forty gallons of Bor- 

 deaux mixture, and the second time one-half bushel. One row right 

 through the orchard, embracing nearly every variety, was left un- 

 sprayed. As the growth began the result became more and more ap- 

 parent, every row being free from curl except the one unsprayed, on 

 which the foliage was considerably affected and the ground beneath 

 was strewed with dead leaves, while under the others none could be 

 seen. Numerous visitors studied the effects of the treatment and were 

 convinced of its effectiveness, and believe that, had the season been a 

 wet one, the difference between the treated and untreated trees would 

 have been still more marked. 



