
          170

This author, page 304, also says: "As far south as Florida
the peach tree is long-lived, healthy and vigorous, and is
never subject to injuries from the peach worm, or the diseases
which so universally afflict the fruit in the Northern and
Western States."

Melocoton is proper spelling.

"Root Gout" of the peach, p. 267 of The Hardy Fruit Book,
Vol. I., By T. D. Fish, London, L. Upcott Gill, 170 Strand, W.C.,-
no date, but recent, between 1880 and 1887.  Describes a disease
in which the roots are distorted into swollen knots or
warty rings.  This is undoubtedly a disease due to nematode
worms, although the author has no suspicion of it.  He says
such roots develop adventitious buds and send out suckers.
[Ask Dr. Neal, Archer, Fla., if this growth of suckers occurs there.]

Of "Jaundice or Yellows" Mr. Fish says: "This is not
very common, though a mild form of the disease is often met
with."  He devotes two inches to it, but the reader is not
clear whether he has our yellows in mind or only a yellowing
due to some other cause. p. 268.

The apple root blight is said to be due to Pemphigus pyri

        