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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" Little Peaches." The name describes one of the symptoms of the 

 disease — the fruit remains very small, and ripens later than the normal 



ripening season. So far as known it is incurable. It is treated in the 

 same. way as Peach Yellows. 



Recent investigations have shown that the New York Apple canker, 

 which in cases is quite destructive to orchard trees, is caused by the same 



