. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE DISEASES OF FRUITS. 227 and fertilizers do much toward removing the " starvation yel- lows"; but such is not contagious. It goes without saying that profitable peach growing is a high art that only the care- ful student of the subject is able to understand. When the genuine yellows is suspected, appeal should be made at once to all the many sources of information upon the subject, and even then the orchard may need to be destroyed for th
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE DISEASES OF FRUITS. 227 and fertilizers do much toward removing the " starvation yel- lows"; but such is not contagious. It goes without saying that profitable peach growing is a high art that only the care- ful student of the subject is able to understand. When the genuine yellows is suspected, appeal should be made at once to all the many sources of information upon the subject, and even then the orchard may need to be destroyed for the sake of future crops of peaches there and elsewhere in the neigh- borhood. The Leaf Curl {Exoascus deformans Fcl.) is perhaps the most conspicuous of the well-established fungous diseases of. Fig. 286.—Branch o£ Peach, showing the Leaf Curl. the peach. The presence of this enemy is quicky recognized by the distortions it causes in the foliage, some of the leaves becoming highly colored, yellow and red (see Fig. 286). The curl usually comes with the first leaves if it comes at all, and in the worst cases all the foliage is affected and largely falls away, as later leaves unfold. The fungus hibernates in the. 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 Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
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