490 Important Orchard Pests and Spray Formulae. 



weeks before time of normal ripening. The surface of such, pre- 

 maturely ripened fruit is usually highly colored, mottled and 

 spotted with red and often slightly knobby or irregular to the 

 touch. The flesh usually shows red streaks extending from the 

 skin to the pit, and the flesh surrounding the pit is much redder 

 than usual. The first year the premature fruit is often much 

 larger than normal. In trees first showing the disease one small 

 branch will often show this premature ripening and reddening of 

 the fruit. Cutting off such a branch will not save the tree which 

 should be destroyed. 



2. Diseased trees often have upon the trunk and main 

 branches upright tufted growths composed of one or more small 

 wiry shoots with narrow, pointed, yellowish leaves. These are 

 unmistakable evidences of the disease, but are not always seen in 

 the season that the first premature fruit appears. 



3. The leaf buds in the axils of the leaves that should remain 

 dormant until the following spring open too soon. 



4. In advanced stages the leaves become a sickly yellow color, 

 although in early stages the foliage to the casual observer is often 

 rich green and perfectly healthy in appearance. 



Peaches prematurely ripened from winter injury, girdling, 

 borers, root rot or drought never show the characteristics of pre- 

 maturely ripened fruit on trees diseased with yellows. 



LITTLE TEACH 

 SYMPTOMS 



1. The fruit, much smaller than usual, ripens one to several 

 weeks later than normal and has the color of a healthy peach. 

 The flavor is generally poor, though in some instances, in the 

 first stages of the disease, it is fairly good, differing little from 

 that of healthy peaches. 



2. The typical wiry shoots found with yellows are seldom or 

 never seen with this disease. 



3. Often a premature bursting of the buds in the axils of the 

 leaves and a pushing out of concealed buds on the main branches, 

 very similar to that in yellows, is seen. These, however, -do not 

 develop into the wiry shoots or bushy growths characteristic of 

 yellows. 



