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set abundant buds and do not open them all at one period as do 

 the peaches of the Crawford class. 



Local elevation saves many peach buds from frost damage of 

 either midwinter or spring type, when peaches on lower sites suf- 

 fer. Contrary to prevalent opinion, orchards well fed and culti- 

 vated suffer less winter injury than do those in which the trees are 

 making scanty growth. 



LIABILITY TO DISEASE 



Scale, yellows, and little peach are diseases that show no prefer- 

 ence for one variety of peach over another so far as the writer's 

 observation goes. Cases in which the loss through yellows is 

 heavier in one variety than in another are frequent, but seem to 

 be traceable either to tainted stock of a particular kind or to the 

 fact that the initial outbreak was in a block of a particular kind 

 and adjoining trees were earlier exposed to infection. 



FIG. 332. SMALL TRUCKS WHICH CAN DELIVER ONLY LOCAL LOADS 



WITH ECONOMY 



With respect to leaf curl and brown rot, varieties differ much in 

 the power of resistance. Elberta is the most subject to leaf curl, 

 and the spraying in early spring or midwinter with lime-sulphur 



