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The cause appeared to be a fungus, but its identity is still 
unknown because we were unable to cultivate it artificially with 
success. It made but a feeble growth and produced no spores. 
In the spring we planted some of the diseased trees hoping that 
the fungus might fruit on the dead branches; but in this, also, 
we were disappointed. 
The owner made an attempt to save the affected trees by 
removing them from the cellar, washing them and pruning away 
the diseased branches and then returning them again to the cel- 
lar; but without avail. New points of infection appeared and 
by spring most of the trees were worthless. 
Evidently, there is danger in throwing sand on wet trees in 
the nursery cellar. It is worthy of note that the sand had been 
used in the cellar continuously for several years. 
DovusB.LP PracuEes.—Although it is not a pathological condition, 
we wish to mention that double fruits of peach were unusually 
abundant last season. On June 6 we observed double peaches 
very plentiful in a large orchard at Lodi. They occurred on 
many trees of different varieties in various parts of the orchard. 
Often, fully 25 per ct. of the fruits were double, and occasionally 
triple fruits were found. The foreman told us that he had seen 
quadruple fruits, but we could find none. As a rule the two 
parts were of about the same size, but sometimes they were 
‘ very unequal. The majorty of them fell from the trees while 
small. 
On a branch of an Early Crawford tree at Rushville we counted 
61 peaches, of which 37 were double and 2 were triple. Another 
small branch on the same tree bore 12 fruits of which 9 were 
double and 2 triple. 
Hart InsJury.—Some observations were made on. peach trees 
which had experienced a severe hailstorm two years previous. 
Upon shaving off the outer layer of bark the inner bark was 
found to contain numerous brown, corky spots, which were not 
externally visible. No gum exuded from such injuries or from 
the wounds made by larger hailstones which broke the bark. 
Neither did any of the hailstone wounds show any tendency to 
develop into knots or cankers, i ; 
