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LETTER EROM S. B. PECK. 



Muskegon", June 7th, 1873. 



Gents: — Your circular in relation to peach trees is received. In answer to 

 queries from number one to seven, inclusive, I have to say that there is no 

 "Yellows" in my orchard. 



No. 8. The Serrate Early York mildews and generally bears but little fruit. 

 All our seedlings that show mildew we lay to that parentage. 



No. 9, Have seen mildew on no other variety. 



No. 10. Nc, but I have noticed the ends of the new growth to be killed in 

 May and June by a very small insect. I think a Avorm. 



No. 11. Light sand down ten to thirty feet to water. 



No. 12. Planted in 1861 and 1862. 



No. 13. Young trees, one year old, are generally killed, and many large 

 limbs are dead on old trees. Very few blossoms except on trees on the highest 

 ground. 



No. 14. I cannot tell with certainty, but think about 15'^ or 16S below zero. 



My own peach trees are on rather flat land, with higher ground between 

 them and the water, and all the show of fruit this season — very little at best 

 — is on the highest part. 



Peach trees on my ground have stood the winter as well as in the Avinter 

 previous, and grape vines very much better. All fruits but peach appear 

 promising. Yours, 



S. B. PECK. 



LETTER FROM JAMES D. HUSTED. 



Lowell, Mich., June 16th, 1873. 



Gents: — In answer to the inquires contained in your circular, I make the 

 following answers: 



No. 1. Our peach trees are not diseased. 



No. 2. The disease known as the '•' Yellows " is not known here. 



No. 8. The varieties of peach having serrated leaves without glands are 

 much more subject to attacks of mildew than glandular varieties, and as this 

 mildew prevents the wood from maturing, the varieties of this class of trees are 

 more liable to be injured bv winter; then, diseases follow as a consequence. 



No. 10. No. 



No. 11. Clay loam, timbered openings. 



No. 12. Fifteen years. 



No. 13. The cold of last winter injured the tops of nearly all the peach trees 

 in this section. One orchard, containing one thousand treees, seven years old, 

 we cut back one-third of the top ; all these trees are now making a vigorous 

 growth ; none lost, but no fruit. Another orchard, about in the same condi- 

 tion, age and situation, not cut back, is bearing a light crop of peaches; none 

 are killed, but the new wood is starting too much on the end of the branches, 

 leaving the center of the trees thinly supplied with leaves. 



No. 14. On the 24th of December, at 8 o'clock A.. M., the thermometer stood 

 for a short time at 24'^ below zero, gradually rising to 16° below. At this 

 point it stood nearly all day. 



Eespectfully, 



JAMES D. HUSTED. 



