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[Stefan Brandle <sbrandle@css.taylor.edu>]

The photos that Dennis Norton pointed to look remarkably like what I've 
seen on my peach trees recently. I had sprayed with a standard home 
orchard spray, but just discovered yesterday when I reached the bottom 
of the spray container that there was a big mass of solidified white 
stuff at the bottom, which is probably what was supposed to be taking 
care of the nasties on my trees. I hadn't used the spray before, and 
while I was surprised by the color (looked pretty much like a "sticker 
oil"), I didn't know that it was a sign of a problem. I had agitated the 
spray container, but wasn't expecting that there would be a big fairly 
solid lump at the bottom. Must have been pretty old.

Live and learn.  :-(

On a separate topic, I have found exactly one Asian pear. All the other 
flowers and young fruit got zapped by the freeze.  On a more positive 
note, all the plants seem to be in good shape.

-- sb