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will start in the middle of the tree, giving it a very thrifty look. 

 A brown, corky growth soon comes on the affected twigs, looking 

 like a fungus growth and covering a large part of the surface. 

 After the leaves have fallen, a large number of extra buds start 

 on the branch still living, and a multitude of twigs start from 

 them forming brushy tufts through the tree. The fruit is small 

 and pale in color, and has an insipid sweetness, with no acid 

 qualities. The rind shows dark brown spots from which radiate 

 cracks and splits in the fruit, and these splits often run in every 

 direction. The disease seems to be the result of uneven growth; 

 too much manure (nitrogenous or organic) applied after the vitality 

 of the trees has been much reduced or when growing in a light 

 soil, or the tree has suffered for water in a porous soil which dries 

 out quickly, the irrigations being too far apart, and this porous 

 soil may lie beneath a dark heavy surface soil. 



The remedy is to keep the condition of the tree as even as pos- 

 sible by fertilizing and irrigating frequently and lightly. 



