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["Mark or Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Hi,
I wonder if someone could tell me what's wrong with this peach tree.  It is
a "White Princess" peach I've had for about 3 years. There is a red growth
on some of the leaves.  Can you tell from the pictures if it is bacterial or
fungal?  Also, I don't know if it's related, but there are some vertical
lines in the trunk  that exude gum.  This spring I noticed some loose bark
and cut it away and found these vertical lines partially healed.  I sprayed
this tree with copper last winter.

Here are the photos:
http://www.nafex.org/uploads/p1010044.jpg  60K
http://www.nafex.org/uploads/p1010043.jpg  185K
http://www.nafex.org/uploads/p1010045.jpg  58K


Thanks,
Mark Angermayer
Zone 5 Kansas

P.S. My apologies to the Nafex webmaster.  I didn't understand how to
properly label these photos.