. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. THE PEACH 97 The snowy tree cricket sometimes punctures new wood ; cut off and burn such wood. Rose chafers or bugs occasionally attack fruit, etc. Knock them into pans of kerosene. Principal Fungous Pests. — Brown rot: See preceding- chapter for description and remedies. Besides affecting the fruit (and sometimes the blossoms), this fungus often injures or kills the twigs, as well. The result is something like "twig blight," although the cause is different from the true twig blight of the apple,
. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. THE PEACH 97 The snowy tree cricket sometimes punctures new wood ; cut off and burn such wood. Rose chafers or bugs occasionally attack fruit, etc. Knock them into pans of kerosene. Principal Fungous Pests. — Brown rot: See preceding- chapter for description and remedies. Besides affecting the fruit (and sometimes the blossoms), this fungus often injures or kills the twigs, as well. The result is something like "twig blight," although the cause is different from the true twig blight of the apple, pear, etc. Thinning the fmit helps to prevent the spread of the rot. Leaf-curl : This is, some seasons, a very serious trouble in many peach orchards. Shortly after the leaves come out in the spring they begin to curl, soon become distorted and misshapen, and then fall off. Thus the tree becomes partially or wholly denuded of foliage, the immature fruit is likely to drop off, and the vitality of the tree is, of course, more or less injured in the at- tempt to perfect a second and peach leaf-ccrl later crop of leaves. Some varieties seem more subject to this trouble than others; and the disease is apt to be worse in a wet season. Remedy: Full-strength Bordeaux (or lime-sulphur spray) in spring before buds swell; when blossoms have fallen, spray with half-strength Bordeaux; if necessary, repeat with half-strength Bordeaux two weeks Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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