498 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



directly much influence in that direction. The free use of lime-sul- 

 phur and Bordeaux mixture for other purposes may have inci- 

 dentally delayed bloom while protecting the tree from too early sap 

 flow which following frost turned to ill-account by causing die-back, 

 sour sap and for which whitewashing is being confidently prescribed 

 as a preventive. 



