Show control peach leaf curl by lime sulphur spray peach leaf curl where it was not checked by dormant sprays now Is causing much damage in ohio orchards although the disease Is very severe and destructive in summer it can easily be controlled EI C young plant pathologist of the ohio experiment station by a spray of one to eight commercial lime sulphur applied after the leaves fall in autumn or by the use of any of the other common sprays when the trees are in the dormant condition summer sprays practically are worthless the first symptoms of the disease fire are a puffing and folding of the leaves at tile the time of opening in the spring or soon thereafter the leaf blade becomes thickened and puckered along the midrib causing the leaf to cal the diseased disease il portions become yellowish with tints flats of red affected leaves anally die and drop from the he tree free in some one cases the tree Is thus entirely defoliated the tree may leaf out again but it Is usually so weakened as to be easily killed by winter freezing and ls Is fly subject to many funny sorts of fim fungous ous diseases and insect pests |