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["Bob Hartman" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

Jim,

On the apple what you describe sounds like apple anthracnose.  Take a look 
at this website, http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/disease.cfm?RecordID=36. 
Not a pleasant disease to work with.  I don't know whether you get that 
disease in MN but we certainly do here in western Washington.

Bob

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From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:57 AM
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Bark Disease question

>    What can you tell me about bark disease?  The bark looks normal until
> the day I notice that it has sunk inward.  When I pull away the outer 
> bark,
> the inner bark seems absent (or shriveled?)  It doesn't girdle the tree 
> but
> so little live bark is left that the live bark can no longer sustain the
> tree and the tree dies the following year.  It isn't sun-scald as the
> problem occurs on the north side too.  No (obvious) evidence of insects. 
> My
> zone 3 peach died this way and now my McIntosh Apple has it.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm Market
> P.O. Box 799
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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