This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A correspondent from Chico, California, sends sample of diseased peach branches, unlike anything known in the East, and asks for information. It so happens that the editor has himself recently visited California, and saw the same disease in the So-nora, Mocassin and Tuolumne Valleys, and gathered what information he could in regard to the trouble. At some future time he will publish what he has been able to ascertain about it. It seems to have more relation to the twig blight in apples than any other disease; but the peach growers in California with whom the editor talked about it, connected it in some way with the curl.
 
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