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[Drevniok <colleendaly@videotron.ca>]

   Hi Toni,

      I am having the exact same thing happening to my Reliance. Last 
year I had a bumper crop on my tree (5 years since I planted it).
   This year it has about 12 blooms on the bottom branch with a few 
leaves; the rest of the tree looks dead.  However,
   during the previous winter  (2007/2008) there was so much snow that 
it broke a main lateral leaving a huge crack - this
   no doubt did not help matters.

      Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, Quebec zone 4b
       

Toni Pralle wrote:
> It's looking like the Reliance peach tree that gifted me with so many
> peaches last year is dieing of whatever took it's sibling the year
> before. It has a very few small leaves. I cut the other one down last
> year leaving a 2 foot plus stump about two inches in diameter and
> something has come from the root but I don't know what. I have the 4
> new trees planted but it looks like yet another year without fruit. As
> if a dead tree matters. We're going to get frost tonight.
> Sigh.........
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