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The snowy tree cricket sometimes punctures new 

 wood ; cut off and burn such wood. Rose chafers or 

 bugs occasionally attack fruit, etc. Knock them into 

 pans of kerosene. 



PRINCIPAL, FUNGOUS PESTS. Brown rot: See 

 preceding chapter for description and remedies. 

 Besides affecting the fruit (and sometimes the 

 blossoms), this fungus often injures or kills the 

 twigs, as well. The result is something like "twig 

 blight, ' ' although the cause is different from the true 

 twig blight of the apple, pear, etc. Thinning the 

 fruit helps to prevent the spread of the rot. 



L,eaf-curl : This is, some seasons, a very serious 

 trouble in many peach orchards. Shortly after the 

 leaves come out in the spring 

 they begin to curl, soon become , 

 distorted and misshapen, and 

 then fall off. Thus the tree 

 becomes partially or wholly 

 denuded of foliage, the immature 

 fruit is likely to drop off, and the 

 vitality of the tree is, of course, 

 more or less injured in the at- 

 tempt to perfect a second and PEACH LEAF-CURL 

 later crop of leaves. Some varieties seem more 

 subject to this trouble than others ; and the 

 disease is apt to be worse in a wet season. 

 Remedy: Full-strength Bordeaux (or lime-sulphur 

 spray) in spring before buds swell ; when blossoms 

 have fallen, spray with half-strength Bordeaux; if 

 necessary, repeat with half-strength Bordeaux two 

 weeks later. 



