Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Oct. lo, 1894. 

 The Honorable Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany. 



Sir: This account of the yellows of the peach — probably the 

 most serious and obscure disease of New York orchards — is sub- 

 mitted for publication and distribution in accordance with Chapter 

 675, Section 87, of the laws of 1894. There has been much in- 

 quiry concerning this disease during the present season, and I 

 have endeavored to examine all orchards in western New York 

 from which complaint of yellows has come. 



L. H. Bailey. 



