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died, m whole or part, in course of a few weeks, without apparent cause. 
The foliage lost color and wilted, the clusters shriveled, and the canes 
turned black. No fungous or insect enemies could be seen. 
The vines were trained up on stakes and the vineyard had received 
proper care and cultivation. The soil was well drained upland. The 
cases were not all in one spot, but scattered about. The malady in its 
sudden appearance and destructive nature called to mind the myste¬ 
rious vine disease of California, but did not agree with it in all particu¬ 
lars, At my suggestion the vines were promptly removed and destroyed. 
BROWN ROT OF THE PEACH.* 
Owing to the phenomenal scarcity of stone fruits in peach districts 
east of the Mississippi, this fungus was rare, except on old fruits. I 
saw it once at Lansing, Mich., on nascent plum shoots, but not else¬ 
where. 
PEACH YELLOWS. 
In southwestern Michigan there was an increase of the disease around 
Fennville, but not elsewhere, so far as f could hear or observe. 
On the Delaware and Chesapeake peninsula this disease was worse 
than any previous year. The marked diminution of new T cases in 1889 
was coincident with a partial failure of the crop. It therefore seemed 
possible that here might be a clue to the cause of the disease. This 
year, however, with an entire failure of the crop the number of new 7 
cases were in excess of those in 188G, 18S7, or eveu 1888, w 7 hen the 
orchards bore most abundantly. Fruit or no fruit, the disease increases. 
The cases by years in four representative Delaware orchards (my own 
count) are as follows: 
Year. 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
Cases. 
Weather in summer. 
30 acres 
set in 
1882. 
10 acres 
set in 
1885. 
2 acres 
set in 
1884. 
10 acres 
set in 
1884. 
Wet. 
*260 
132 
136 
t27 
Dry.. 
314 
71 
47 
54 
Wet.. 
255 
63 
6 
37 
Dry. 
856 
118 
90 
87 
* A. very few cases belong to 1886 when the disease first appeared. t First cases. 
THE PEACH ROSETTE. 
A new peacli disease, or an old one in a new form, has made its ap 
pearance in Georgia and Kansas and bids fair to become very serious: 
One Kansas orchard was destroyed in two years, and certain Georgia 
orchards have suffered almost as badly. In some particulars this dis¬ 
ease is identical with peach yellows; in others it differs somewhat. 
The disease occurs also in plums, wild and cultivated, and is equally 7 
destructive. A full account is reserved for separate consideration. 
* Monilia fructigena , P. 
