FRUITS 



The peach is not a long-lived tree and has 

 several serious enemies. The first of these 

 is San Jose scale, which, being contagious, 

 should be preventable, if the owner upon 

 discovering it would promptly take up the 

 tree or plant and burn it, root and branch, 

 and then at once spray the remaining trees 

 with the lime, salt and sulphur spray recom- 

 mended by the United States Agricultural 

 Department and generally used by fruit 

 growers. This disease should be treated in 

 the same manner as the Board of Health 

 proceeds in cases of contagion, the spraying 

 corresponding to the fumigation of a dwell- 

 ing. Yellows is another contagious disease, 

 which is recognized by the ripening of the 

 fruit long before its due time, by the red 

 spots on the peaches extending from the 

 skin well into the fruit, and also by the 

 tufts of yellowish leaves which form upon 

 the branches. Trees so affected should be 

 burned at once. Curculio also attacks the 

 peach, and can be destroyed by jarring the 

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