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Below is a list of some of the newer peach varieties that are showing promise in
Kentucky, starting with the earliest:
Name T Weeks ahead of Elberta
ype in ripening
Dixired · · - ·· -—-- — yellow cling 6
Erly Red Fre - V - — —- - white semi —cling 5
]erseyland --———-— yellow free 5
Dixigem —-———— - — — yellow free 4 1/2
Raritan Rose ——--— white free 4
Redhaven ———·- -— — — yellow free 4
Cumberland ————— ·— white free 3 1/2
n Fair Beauty —·--—- yellow semi -ecling 3
Triogem " ‘···· · - - yellow free 3
Fairhaven »— -· -~ — -- — — yellow free 3
Sunhigh ——-———-- - yellow {ree Z
Ambergem ·— -—·—-— yellow cling 2
Goldeneast ·» ~ - - »— - — yellow free 1 1/2
Veteran —--~————— yellow semi~cling l 1/Z
Sullivan Early Elberta — yellow free 1
Summercrest —--——— yellow free 1
A Redskin · - - -· — ~ -— — — yellow free with Elbgrta
3 Afterglow -—————- -— yellow free l week after
The above list contains new varieties £or» any season, both white and yellow, and
both freestone and clingstones and all are doing well in Kentucky, lf a few of these are
5 selected according to the preferred season and color there is reasonable assurance of
  a crop if good care is given, the weather cooperating.
Many others are being tried and otherntmots will be added to the list as they prove
worthy,
NEW APPLE AND PEACH PEST, THE RED ·BANDED LEAF ROLLER
W, D. Arrristrong
The red —banded leaf roller showed up in Kentucky in small numbers in 1947 or
1948, but it was not until 1949 that it was present in numbers large enough to cause 6.
heavy loss to orchards and to present a serious orchard problem for both peaches and
apples, l/Vhen the 1949 peach harvest survey was made covering 17 peach orchards lo-
cated near Mayfield, Paducah, Princeton, Madisonville, Henderson, Louisville, and Bed- I
ford, 12 of these had leaf roller injury to the fruit, ranging from l to 44 percent. Only (
4 orchards had no leaf roller damage, It also caused heavy damage in a number of apple
orchards, While most damage was observed in western Kentucky, there was evidence of
slight damage in central and northern Kentucky and much injury probably occurred in '
areas not covered in this survey, {
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The pest passes the winter in the pupa stage and the moths emerge in early spring.
They lay their eggs on the foliage, The young, active, greenish—yellow worms feed on the
leaves, webbing several together where they over-lap, Later in the season they attack
the fruits, eating out grooves and trenches in the surface of the fruit , often near the
stem, at the suture, where fruits touch each other, or where leaves come in contact with
the fruit. T l . , , . ». , `