Symptoms 



Due to Ascochyta Pisi. Spray with Bordeaux 

 mixture or soda-Bordeaux. 

 Peaoh and Nectabike. 



Gumming^ leaf - curl, and shot - hole, see 

 Almond. Silver-leaf, see Plum. 



Foliage. — Small yellowish spots on upper 

 surface, chestnut-brown heaps of spores below 

 freely scattered over leaf. Rust due to Puccinia 

 Pruni. Spray with Bordeaux mixture. 



Fruit. — Whitish depressed spots on matiire 

 fruit, surrounded by a blackened margin, due 

 to Gloeosporium fructigenum. Spray with Uver 

 of sulphur or Bordeaux mixture. Burn affected 

 fruit. 



Small round, at first greenish, then brownish 

 or oUve spots on ripe fruit ; the spots finally 

 run together and form a brown crust ; the fruit 

 cracks and decays. Scab due to Cladosporium 

 carpopMlum. Spray before ripening of fruit 

 with Bordeaux mixture. 



Greyish powdery growth over leaf and fruit, 

 often affecting considerable area of fruit surface. 

 Mildew. Dust with fiowers of sulphur or spray 

 with Uver of sulphur. 



N.B. — Ammoniacal copper carbonate may 

 be used in all cases where Bordeaux mixture is 

 recommended for spraying peaches or nectarines 

 with less Mkehhood of damage to foliage. 

 See No. 7 (p. 62). 



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