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[Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>]

To the list,

While driving on the highway near Wenatchee, Washington (a great 
fruit-growing area) this weekend we noticed field after field of pure 
white fruit trees, in addition to an occasional field of the usual 
grayish-brown trees.

I thought it might be some sort of early spring spray, but others 
suggested it might be a variety or varieties with white bark. Every 
bit of the tree was white - trunk and all of the branches, giving the 
fields a rather ghostly appearance.

Any idea what this might be? By the way, it was a beautiful sunny 
day, with no rain to wash off anything that might have been sprayed.

Betty Mayfield
northwest Oregon