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at scale strength can be omitted only at considerable risk. Brown 

 rot difficulties are much lessened through the use of Scott's unboiled 

 lime-sulphur mixture, and the keeping quality of the fruit it im- 

 proved. This new practice of summer spraying of the peach seems 

 likely to widen the territory greatly over which good quality stock 

 may be produced, and the hills along the Hudson may in conse- 

 quence lose their advantage long enjoyed in that favorable eleva- 

 tion where the production of clear fruit without spraying in 

 summer is assured. 



I ii.. 333. TRUCK READY TO LEAVE ORCHARD OF H. H. BROWN, MONSEY, N. Y. 

 LOADS OF Six TONS ARE NOT UNUSUAL. 



The progressive peach grower must be prepared to change varie- 

 ties oftener than the grower of other tree fruits and be prepared to 

 fight more intense battles with plant diseases than other growers. 

 Few peach men in eastern Xew York are friendly enough with 

 their trees to make prompt use of the axe, but without it the little 

 understood diseases of yellows and little peach ordinarily shorten 

 the life of the orchard far below the allotted span. Relief attained 

 through the planting of immune varieties, a practice advocated by 

 some, has never proved effective with the worst foes of the peach 

 tree in eastern Xew York. 



