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Rose, Cole's Early, Stump-the-World, Walter's Early, Snow's Orange, George 

 4th, May's Choice, and a seedling from the Early Crawford grown by C. Engle 

 of Paw Paw, and by him named President Lyon. In glass jars, in a solution 

 of boracic acid, were large Early Yorks, Stanwick's Early York, and Cole's 

 and Hale's Early, being thus preserved for exhibition at the State Fair. Be- 

 sides these there were Imperial Egg and Duane's Purple plums, Transcendent 

 Crab-apples, and Lawton and Kittatinny blackberries. All these were excel- 

 lent specimens of their kind, and their pleasing odors, brilliant colors, and 

 delicious taste were almost equally enjoyable. 

 The forenoon was devoted to 



STROLLING, VISITING, 



and talking of almost every pomological topic in an informal way. Many ex- 

 amined Mr. Dumont's peach orchard of several thousand trees, covering forty 

 acres, the oldest of them having been set but five years, and some of them 

 are but two years old. Many were laden with heavy crops, and, where the fruit 

 was gaining its color, presented a beautiful appearance. 



At noon the company gathered about table in the house, or sat beneath the 

 trees, and enjoyed a bountiful spread of good things provided in part from 

 the baskets, and. in part from the generous larder of the hosts. 



NO YELLOWS 



could be found on the premises. But the seekers after evidence of that dis- 

 ease were not disappointed, for samples of infected fruit and twigs, and one 

 whole diseased tree, were brought for examination, and were handled, cut and 

 gazed upon with mixed feelings of curiosity and dread. None of the visitors 

 cared to carry any mementoes of the disease home with them. But each one 

 became satisfied that he could hereafter know yellows upon seeing it ; and we 

 have little doubt that with his new light he will not have to search far about 

 home before making uupleasant discoveries. 



DISCUSSION 



of pomological topics certainly may be endless ; the whole tale never will be told, 

 and some topics bear verbal fruit more plentifully even than trees do peaches. 

 We have heard this yellows question debated more or less for the past three 

 years, and no one seems ever to tire of it, save the humble scribe who sweats 

 over his task of inditing the voluminous "idees" of each speaker. This time, 

 however, one man did most of the talking. They got President Lyon — patient 

 soul that he is ! — upon his feet and plied him with questions ceaselessly for 

 more than one hour. Mr. Fuller acted as spokesman for the Grand Rapids 

 men, and began by asking if Mr. Lyon knew of the existence of yellows any- 

 where between here and the Atlantic coast, and how it came here. As to the 

 latter Mr. Lyon said, " I don't know." Trees have been imported from points 

 west of New Jersey and east of St. Joseph, which afterward had yellows, while 

 young, but it is hard to say that the disease came from any definite place. 

 Recently he received a work from Pennsylvania, and it speaks of yellows there. 

 He once received some trees from Georgia that showed yellows the first year in 

 the stock, below the bud, showing the original tree to have been affected. The 

 talk that there is no yellows here or there usually is the result of ignorance of 

 the disease on the part of the person reporting. He thought there was less 

 yellows at the far south. The disease has been known in the Delaware region 

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