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THE PEACH LEAF-CURL FUNGUS. 
The Countess of Selkirk writes: — -'Last year our Peaches and 
Nectarines suffered dreadfully from the leaves curling up and dying. 
The Leai-curl Fungus (Exoascus deforjians). 
This year — 1900 — when they began to do the same thing the gardener 
put lime in water, carefully strained it through fine muslin, and syringed 
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some trees with it, with the grand result that it entirely cured the 
disease, whilst the one tree which for experiment sake was not syringed 
was as bad with the disease as ever." 
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