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fruit, it attacks the flowers and twigs. The disease ranges 

 over the entire peach-growing territory, and in some years 

 the loss has amounted to 50 per cent of the crop or more. 



Fig. 54. — Two packages of peaches, one healthy, the other affected with brown 

 rot (sclerotiniose). After Scott. 



The estimated damage in Ohio alone in one year was a 

 quarter of a million dollars ; in one year in Pennsylvania 

 twenty carloads were lost. Apples, pears, and quinces are 

 attacked, but. to lesser extent. 



Its characteristic appearance on the fruit enables one to 



