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badly infected leaves may turn yellow and drop prematurely, or 
die, turn brown, and remain on the tree. This results in a weaken- 
ing and in many cases the death of the fruit buds for the following 
year's crop. 
Fig. 10 — Blotch on young fruit 
Fig. 11 — Blotch on mature fruit 
''The first evidence of the disease on the fruit is a very small, 
inconspicuous light brown blot which under a hand lens has the 
appearance of a stellate collection of brown fibers just beneath the 
epidermis." 
The blotch spreads rapidly until it attains a size of from one- 
eighth to three-eights of an inch or even larger and becomes 
