Show PEACH YELLOWS IS DANGEROUS DISEASE The fact that the he peach diseases railed ralle yellows and aneS Utile little peach have hut not been severe anere the th tint past few tew year yean has baa bred a feeling of ot false fall security on the part of some lom some grower lieve tha that these thele troubles troUble are re on theIn th the decline In an an article In New Te Jersey sey Ag Agriculture Agri Agri- Agriculture culture In which he gives gins a a detailed description of these destructive dis dl diseases dl- dl eases eases- William n. n Martin MarUn plant pathologist pathologist pa pa- at the New Tera Jersey r agricultural experiment station says In j i substance t Peach yellows is by no means a new Dew disease In New Ter Jersey er th the term was u ae early as 1791 when the disease disease dis die I ease ease made Its Ita appearance In the lower Delaware river valle valley The most characteristic symptom of yellows the article re reads ds is the ripening of the fruit several leveral days to two weeks In advance of that of a no normal nor mat mal tree In addition to this the fruit from an an affected effected tree Is commonly more or less tess spotted red and blotched The spots occur either on the skin or throughout the flesh flub Little peach diners differs from yellows In that the fruit remains small and ripens from seven senD to ten days das later than normal fruit of the same variety and the diseased fruit Is le frequently flattened and somewhat some some- somewhat what Irregular In form A tree affected with re yellows develops devel deTel o epa ops s sickly wiry and finely bran branched hed shoots on the the trunk These Thele much much- branched branch d shoots may appear on a Very err young tree and are arc an Important symptom symptom tom of ot the disease Young Toung trees show a drooping of ot the leaves leans towar toward the branches and trunks trunk of ot the tree com com blued with a a slight curling of toward the petioles or leaf stems The foliage of the tree Is III frequently yellowish yellowish yel yel- lowish green although this Is I. not al always always al- al ways way the case On OD a tree affected with little peach the leaves leave droop toward th tha branches branche and are curled and sad rolled their color becomes become lighter usually a mottled yellow In conclusion Dr Martin lIa says Inmany In IIi Inmany many sections section small all neglected o orchards orchards or or- chard exist which contain a large per percent percent percent cent of diseased tree trees Conditions Condition are better In fn the Imported growing fruit sections but a number of diseased ed trees are to be found These tree trees are a menace to the healthy trees tree and should be destroyed It Is l. a waste of time and money to attempt to bring them Into bearing The New Jersey State Horticultural society advocates that active steps be betaken betaken taken takeD to reduce these dangerous diseases diseases dis die eases and In the opinion of Doctor Martin all peach growers would do dowell dowell dowell well to operate co-operate In a plan of cation |