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d'Amanlis Marguerite Marillat Marie Louise d'Uccle 

 Doyenne Boussoch Marie Louise Souvenir du Congres 

 Fondante d'Automne Citron des Cannes (or Madeleine) 

 St. Swi thins - 100 



3. INSECT PESTS AND DISEASES Slugworm of Pear and Cherry 

 The Pear-leaf Blister Moth Pear Midge The Pear-leaf 

 Blister Mite Other Pear Pests Pear Scab - - 105 



QUINCES - ... =^j. -__ - 107 



MEDLARS - - - - - " A 108 



SECTION XXII. STONE FRUITS: PLUMS, CHERRIES, 



PEACHES, NECTARINES, APRICOTS 

 PLUMS 



1. GENERAL Plum Stocks - ... 109 



2. VARIETIES OF PLUM TO PLANT Rivers's Early Prolific The 

 Czar Gisborne Pershore Heron Prince of Wales 

 Belle de Louvain Victoria Curlew Pond's Seedling 

 Kirke's Orleans Belle de Septembre Monarch Bryan- 

 ston's Gage - - - 111 



3. PLUM PESTS AND DISEASES The Red Maggot of Plums The 

 Plum -fruit Sawfly The Leaf-curling Plum Aphis The 

 Mealy Plum Aphis The Shot-hole Borer Other Plum 

 Pests Silver Leaf Crown Gall Gumming - - - 113 



DAMSONS AND BULLACES - - - - - - - .. - 118 



CHERRIES 



1 . GENERAL Geans Bigarreaus Dukes Morellos Acreage 



under Cherries - 119 



2. CULTIVATION Planting Management of Cherry Orchards- 

 Pruning Picking and Marketing Varieties White Hearts 

 Black Hearts Dukes or Guignes Acid or Cooking 

 Cherries - 120 



3. COST OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING RECEIPTS - - 128 

 4. DISEASES AND PESTS OF THE CHERRY Cherry -leaf Scorch- 

 Brown Rot Winter Moth Caterpillar The Cherry Black 

 Fly Birds 129 



PEACHES AND NECTARINES 



1. GENERAL 131 



2. CULTIVATION Peaches Nectarines Peaches and Nectarines 

 under Glass Peaches and Nectarines in Pots Varieties of 

 Peaches Varieties of Nectarines 132 



3. FUNGOID DISEASES OF THE PEACH TREE Peach-leaf Curl- 

 Peach Mildew " Die-back " of Peach Shoots - - - 139 

 4. INSECT PESTS The Peach Scale Other Peach Pests - - 141 

 APRICOTS - - - -.. . . 142 



