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Fig. 325. Leaf Spot on Pear 1050 



Fig. 326. Leaf Blight on Quince 1051 



Fig. 327. Leaf Blight on Fruit of Pear 1051 



Fig. 328. Well-grown Pears Ready to be Picked for Market 1053 



Fig. 329. Young Peaches Thriving on Soil of Slate Rock 1061 



Fig. 330. Elbertas, Ungraded 1063 



Fig. 331. Sixty-Basket Loads from Orchard to Packing House 1064 



Fig. 332. Small Trucks Which Can Deliver Only Local Loads with 



Economy 1066 



Fig. 333. Truck Ready to Leave Orchard of H. H. Brown 1067 



Fig. 334. Looking North from the Ridge Road in Niagara County 1069 



(Peach Rows Nearly One Mile Long.) 



Fig. 335. Trees Planted 18 Feet Apart Nearly Touch at Five Years. . . . 1070 



Fig. 336. One Tree from Orchard Shown in Fig. 335 1072 



Fig. 337. View in a 25-year-old Peach Orchard in Niagara County.... 1073 



Fig. 338. An 8-year-old Peach Tree That Has Not Been Headed Back . . 1074 

 Fig. 339. An 8-year-old Peach Tree, Pruned to Keep the Bearing Wood 



Low 1075 



Fig. 340. Nursery Trees, Showing Contrast of Vigor 1085 



Fig. 341. Well-formed, Compact One-year-old Tree in the Orchard 1087 



Fig. 342. Reeves Tree Not Cut Back During Its Growth 1088 



Fig. 343. One-year-old Tree Before Pruning 1089 



Fig. 344. One-year-old Tree After Pruning 1090 



Fig. 345. By Some Cutting Back of Branches, More Compact Trees Are 



Formed , 1091 



Fig. 346. The Curculio and Its Work 1095 



Fig. 347. Work of a Plant Bug ' 1096 



Fig. 348. Work of the Shot-Hole Borer 1100 



Fig. 349. Channels Made by the Shot-Hole Borer 1101 



Fig. 350. The Lesser Peach Borer and the Peach-Tree Borer 1103 



Fig. 351. Mounding of Peach Trees to Check Borers and Prevent Freez- 

 ing 1105 



Fig. 352. Crown Gall 1106 



Fig. 353. Shot-Hole Effect on Peach Foilage 1108 



Fig. 354. Brown Rot of the Peach 1109 



Fig. 355. Sclerotia Stage of Brown Rot on the Ground 1110 



Fig. 356. Frozen Crotch 1114 



Fig. 357. Fungused Stub Canker 1115 



Fig. 358. Early Richmond Cherry * . . . 1124 



Fig. 359. Montmorency Cherry 1126 



Fig. 360. English Morello Cherry 1128 



Fig. 361. Schmidt Cherry 1130 



Fig. 362. Windsor Cherry 1 132 



Fig. 363. Cherry Pickers on Farm of W. L. McKay 1136 



Fig. 364. A Thirsty Day in the Orchard 1137 



Fig. 365. Montmorency Cherry Orchard in Bloom 1138 



Fig. 366. Three-Year Montmorency Orchard .on Farm of W. L. McKay. . 1140 

 Fig. 367. Napoleon Orchard in Bloom; Spraying Apparatus in Fore- 

 ground 1141 



