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grown from the seed of peaches, gathered from trees 

 affected with that disease, and sometimes carried by 

 bees and by the wind in the pollen of diseased orchards, 

 to healthy ones. The only treatment is extermination 

 of the diseased trees by digging up and carting off and 

 burning. I never have wormed my trees, but propose, 

 hereafter, to do so. But we think here that removing a 

 portion of the dirt from around the tree in autumn and 

 spreading hot lime in its place, and then, in the spring, 

 replacing the dirt, prevents worms, and that an ounce of 

 prevention is better than a pound of cure. 



Question 12. I certainly prefer trees grown from 

 the seed of the natural fruit, and would prefer buds from 

 natural fruit if they could be had. I think every grower 

 of peaches should raise his own trees in his own nursery. 



Question 13. The curcurlio, in my judgment, is an 

 aid to the grower when the orchard is too heavily set in 

 fruit, but when the crop of young peaches is light, the 

 curcurlio will have its share and to that extent is a serious 

 enemy to the peach in this region. The best thing to be 

 done when the crop is likely to be too much decimated, 

 is to work the orchard frequently, and in doing so to jar 

 the tree by striking the padded swingle-tree of the 

 plough or harrow against every tree. This keeps the 

 insect always on the go. 



Question 14. I have often seen the curled leaf. It 



