February 2 , 
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PEACH YELLOWS IN THE SOUTH. 
I have just noticed your discussion on 
peach yellows on page 15, and am glad to 
add a note in support of Mr. Fletcher’s 
argument that growing southern trees 
would offer no help against yellows. I 
recently tabulated the cases of yellows 
among many thousands of peach trees in 
Maryland, the origin of which we have 
record. And in no case, when the number 
of trees was large enough to exclude er¬ 
ror were there more cases of yellows from 
one nursery than another, whether north¬ 
ern or southern. But, for several reasons, 
these figures are not conclusive with re¬ 
gard to the question of your correspond¬ 
ent. I recently saw numbers of cases of 
yellows in peach trees in widely separated 
places in the mountain region of North 
Carolina and Tennessee, so that the dis¬ 
ease is evidently in this part of the South 
at least and in the very section from 
which comes the “Tennessee seed” sup¬ 
posed to be used by nurserymen to secure 
freedom from yellows. But probably 
more “Tennessee” peach pits are sold for 
the use of nurserymen each year than 
ever were collected from Tennessee nat¬ 
urals since peaches were first planted in 
*hat section, j. b. s. Norton. 
Maryland Experiment Station. 
Strawberry Blight And A Remedy. 
/). J. 8., Lower Montague, Prince Edward 
Island. —1. What is the latest theory as to the 
cause of Strawberry blight, and what are the 
best remedies? For several years my Straw¬ 
berries look well till the first berries begin 
to ripen, when the hulls of the nemos rurn 
black and the berries fail to ripen properly. 
In some cases the whole fruit stalk withers, 
and no berries ripen. Some varieties seem 
to be affected worse than others, notably 
Warfield and Cyclone. With (he nanon eye 
nothing wrong can he detected with the foli¬ 
age, except a slight curling up of the edges 
of the leaves. Is this blight? Bust does 
not trouble strawberries here, except a few 
varieties such as Ilunn and William Belt. 
Our soil is sandy loam and my system of ma¬ 
nuring is to follow cabbage, which has been 
heavily manured with stable manure, with 
strawberries, using a good dressing of fer¬ 
tilizer, consisting of one part of nitrate of 
soda, one of muriate of potash and two 
of superphosphate on the berries. However, 
the manuring does not seem to make any dif¬ 
ference, as I have manured in different ways. 
2. l4ist year I lost my sweet peas with aphis 
on the roots. The peas came up finely and 
grew well till they were about three inches 
high, when they turned yellow and died. On 
pulling tip the plants I found that the roots 
were covered with yellowish aphis. Ground 
was manured with rotten srable manure, 
wood ashes and superphosphate. What is 
the cause and cure for such an attack? Will 
it be safe to put peas in the same ground 
next year? 
Ans. —1. From the very accurate de¬ 
scription given there can be no doubt that 
the inquirer’s strawberry beds arc affected 
with the Strawberry leaf-blight. This dis¬ 
ease frequently causes great damage to 
the strawberry crop. It makes it appear¬ 
ance about the time the fruit sets, and 
begins its destructive ravages as the ber¬ 
ries begin to ripen. It first manifests it¬ 
self by turning the leaves a brownish red; 
it will then attack the fruit stems and 
hulls, cutting off the supply of nourish¬ 
ment from the berries; the calyx begins to 
wither and dry up, and the berries become 
soft and insipid and are of little value, 
It usually grows more destructive as the 
berry season advances. A long experi¬ 
ence and close observation enable me to 
say that no one can always tell just what 
causes this blight among strawberries. I 
have seen it very bad on poorly-drained 
soil, and have observed its bad effects on 
light sandy land, and sometimes it is 
very destructive on clay loam, therefore I 
am fully convinced that it is not at all 
partial to certain soils. Not until we 
can to some extent control the condition 
of our soil can we expect to find an ef¬ 
fective remedy. The conditions conducive 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
to the development of the disease, appear 
to be a general weakness of the plants; 
this may be brought about from various 
causes, such as old and wornout beds, im¬ 
poverished soil, plants with a heavy set 
of fruit with insufficient nourishment, 
plants exposed during Winter without 
protection, unmulched beds during hot dry 
weather; any one of these conditions will 
have a tendency to weaken the constitu¬ 
tion of the plants, making them an easy 
prey to rust, blight and other diseases. 
During the time we have been engaged in 
growing strawberries we have found some 
varieties so constitutionally strong in their 
vegetative parts, and so vigorous in their 
fruit organs, that they will do. well al¬ 
most anywhere, while other sorts are con¬ 
stitutionally weak in foliage, yet strong 
in fruit-bearing propensities. They set a 
great quantity of berries with little or no 
vitality to mature the fruit. Such varie¬ 
ties are very susceptible to blight, and 
should not be cultivated except by those 
who are well acquainted with their nat¬ 
ural requirements. It requires a healthy, 
vigorous foliage to digest the various 
plant foods found in the different soils, 
and probably the safest method of pro¬ 
tecting the plants from blight and other 
fungus diseases is to conserve moisture 
by thorough cultivation while the plants 
are growing, protecting them well during 
the Winter with a liberal mulch of horse 
manure. This material if left on the plant 
during the Summer prevents the escape of 
moisture at a time it is most needed and 
it keeps the soil cool. In fact it is to the 
bearing bed, what the cultivation is to the 
newly-planted field. Chemical remedies 
such as Bordeaux Mixture are sometimes 
used with good results, but with all the 
good effects derived from its continued 
applications 1 wish to emphasize the fact 
that it is only a preventive and not a 
cure. It will therefore have no effect 
when once the blight makes its appear¬ 
ance. 2. 1 know of no remedy for root 
aphis except a change of soil. 
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dred vears ago!” Village Dame (un¬ 
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