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Plums and Plum Culture 



sive production of gum which is popularly looked upon 

 as a disease and called gumming, is not a specific dis- 

 ease, for it is characteristic of many troubles of stone 

 fruits and other plants." 



CANKER OF BRANCHES OF SATSUMA 



On plums and also on peaches this gummosis, 

 following monilia, leads to a sort of canker. The ex- 

 udation of gum, especially at some point where the 

 fungus has severely attacked a fruit spur or small leaf 

 spray, results finally in an open wound. This does 



