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was found a number of times, and in one case very com- 

 mon on the apples of a roadside -seedling. A related species 

 ( Roestelia aiirantiaca) also occurred more commonly than 

 usual on the quince. In this case the fruit only is attacked, 

 usually at the base near the stem, and when serious, the rust 

 prevents its maturity. As these two rusts are not perennial 

 on their hosts, but depend on annual spring infection' from 

 the so-called "cedar apples," we need not necessarily expect 

 them to be prominent the coming year. 



The peach, perhaps, more than any other fruit, had an 

 unusual share of troubles, yet the weather was so favorable, 

 especially during the ripening period, that less than the usual 

 amount of scab, and practically no brown rot, developed. The 

 cold weather in late January and early February, besides kill- 

 ing many of the blossoms in certain orchards, also produced 

 a more serious trouble, called collar girdle, in which the bark 

 near the surface of the ground was killed. The bacterial leaf 

 spot, to which attention was first called a few years ago, was 

 more common than I have yet seen it, but was not so abundant 

 as to cause any very serious injury. Mr. Rorer, of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, recently reported this trou- 

 ble as sometimes causing serious injury in the Southwest, where 

 it attacks the fruit and twigs, as well as the leaves. This dis- 

 ease is now known to be identical with the black spot on the 

 plum, which has been reported here rarely on the fruit. As 

 many of you are aw^are, Mr. Waite has definitely identified 

 the trouble mentioned by Mr. Lyman and others at our last 

 meeting, as the Little Peach, so called on account of the small, 

 late-ripening fruit. This is said to be of a nature similar to 

 the yellows. 



So far as this latter trouble is concerned, while certain 

 orchards have suffered severely from it or so-called "yellows," 

 apparently it has not proved quite so serious as anticipated by 

 some. At least, certain nursery trees, and even some trees in 

 the orchard, thought a year ago last fall to be showing signs 

 of the yellows, the past year apparently outgrew the trouble. 

 These trees, no doubt, were merely temporarily injured by the 



