4o6 Bulletin 75. 



Sec. 5. Any person who shall, while such an appeal is pend- 

 ing, sell any tree from a nursery where there are found to be dis- 

 eased trees, or any fruit from such tree; or who shall, without 

 such appeal, or after such final decision, refuse to destroy such 

 tree or fruit, shall be fined not less than one hundred or more than 

 five hundred dollars. 



Sec. 6. Any person that shall knowingly buj'-, for the purpose 

 of selling, or shall sell or offer for sale, auy fruit from such dis- 

 eased trees, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one 

 hundred dollars. 



Sec. 7. For the purpose of investigation or for the purpose 

 of destroying trees or fruit known to be diseased, the said com- 

 missioners and his deputies may enter any premises; and any 

 person who shall prevent or attempt to prev^ent such entry shall 

 be punished by a fine of not less than ten or more than one hun- 

 dred dollars, or imprisoned in a common jail not less than ten nor 

 more than sixty days, or both. , 



Sec. 8. Prosecutions for violation of this act may be brought 

 before justices of the peace, or any city, borough, town police, or 

 common pleas court having criminal jurisdiction, by any prosecut- 

 ing officer, or by the commissioner on peach yellows, or any of 

 his deputies, and for such purpose said commissioner and his dep- 

 uties shall have all the power of grand jurors. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



YELLOWS BREVITIES. 



Yellows is a distinct disease. It attacks peach trees of all ages 

 and in all conditions of vigor, seeming to have a preference for 

 those which are thrifty. It is incurable, and its termination is 

 always fatal. 



The disease sometimes attacks the almond, apricot, and Japan- 

 ese plum. 



Yellows has been recognized for about a century. It is peculiar 

 to North America, and is generally distributed north of the Car- 

 olinas and east of the Mississippi. 



It is communicable from tree to tree. The means of communi- 

 cation is unknown, but it is not spread through the soil, it does 

 not originate in the roots, it is evidently not conveyed from flower 

 to flower, and it is probably not transferred by means of pruning 

 tools. 



