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October 11, 1890. Not recovered and not better looking than other diseased trees in 

 the same orchard. All of the foliage which remains is unnaturally rolled, curled, red 

 and yellow. The tree bears diseased sprouts and some of its winter buds are now 

 pushing. 



(8) August 10, 1888. Variety, Christiana. One limb was removed; three were left. The 

 excised limb biparted eight inches above the cut. One fork bore 230 premature peaches 

 and only a few healthy green ones. On the lower part, pushing from the bark, were 

 several diseased growths each only about one half inch long. One of these was within 

 eighteen inches of the cut. The spring foliage was full-grown, dark green and healthy. 

 The winter buds were dormant and there were no other indications of disease. The 

 other fork, which was of the same size or a little larger, bore healthy foliage and 

 between two and three hundred healthy, green peaches. The limbs which remained 

 appeared to be perfectly healthy. They bore only green peaches and healthy-looking 

 foliage. 



May 13, 1889. Apparently still diseased. There are some feeble shoots with reddish 

 foliage on the main limbs near the trunk. 



September 17, 1889. The symptoms of yellows are more apparent on this tree than 

 on any of the preceding seven, yet the tree would not be called badly diseased. There 

 is no fruit to judge by, but the spring foliage on the entire tree is somewhat curled and 

 yellowish. There are also a number of feeble shoots, and winter buds are now germin- 

 ating in a number of places upon both the main branches of a limb opposite to the one 

 which was excised. 



October 11, 1890. Most of the foliage has fallen; what remains is unnaturally rolled, 

 curled, and red. The tree is rather twiggy from last year's diseased shoots now dead. 

 On one branch and on one stem-shoot, the winter buds are now germinating. Not many 

 diseased sprouts appeared this year and the tree has made a fair growth. 



(9) August 10, 1888. Variety, Oldmixon. One limb was removed; two limbs were 

 left. The excised limb biparted fourteen inches above the cut. The larger fork bore 

 100 to 200 healthy, green peaches; the smaller fork bore about one half as many 

 premature peaches, but also some green ones on the top branches. A few sprouts 

 near the base of the smaller fork are not quite healthy, and the smallest, which is only 

 about one half inch long, is not over two feet above the cut. The stump was sound, 

 and the spring foliage on the entire limb was full-grown and healthy. The peaches 

 and foliage on the remaining limbs were perfectly healthy in appearance. 



May 13, 1889. Signs of disease are now visible on the trunk just below the stump of 

 the excised limb. 



September 17, 1889. Still diseased. A tuft of yellowish, much-branched, feeble 

 sprouts has grown from the stub of the excised limb. One of the main limbs bears 

 diseased growths at its base, six feet above, and on the extremities of several branches, 

 at a distance of over ten feet from the trunk. The other main limb looks healthy, 

 except that the terminal buds on two thrifty " watershoots " began to grow in August, 

 something very unusual in healthy peach trees in this climate, although not uncommon 

 in Georgia in midsummer. The spring foliage on both limbs continues to look healthy. 



October 11, 1890. Most of the foliage has fallen. The remainder is unnaturally red- 

 dish. Terminal buds pushed some time ago in the top of the tree, and several lusty 

 stem-shoots are now full of germinating buds. 



(10) August 10, 1888. Variety, Reeves' Favorite. One limb was removed. It bore 

 twenty to thirty green peaches and about the same number of fully ripe ones,* but 

 none of the latter were within ten feet of the cut. There were no diseased sprouts or 

 germinating winter buds. The foliage was full-grown and entirely healthy. The remain- 

 ing limbs bore healthy peaches and excellent foliage. One small shoot, however, on the 

 base of the east branch, did not appear quite right, yet I could not say it was affected 

 by yellows. It was fourteen inches long and unbranched. The leaves were somewhat 

 paler than normal and were attacked by a shot-hole fungus, which is quite common on 

 the leaves of diseased trees. 



May 13, 1889. The entire top was blown away by a tornado which occurred soon after 

 the excision, but the stubs of the limbs appear to be diseased. 



September 17, 1889. Numerous yellowish, much-branched, feeble, spindling 6hoots 

 have grown from the stub. 



October 11, 1890. The trunk is now dead. 



* The premature peaches on this tree, like those on all the others, were large and showy ; the skin was 

 red-spotted and high colored ; the flesh was also much streaked and spotted with bright red. Many of 

 these spots were to be 6een on radial as well as tangential sections. They were about one sixteenth 

 inch in diameter, and were not confined to the fibro-vascular system, but formed part of the ordinary 

 parenchyma of the fruit. The streaks of color were limited principally to radial sections, but did not 

 extend from pit to skin. Some of thesejpeaches ta6ted very well ; others were insipid or sickish. Some- 

 times, even, one half of a peach tasted well and the remainder was not palatable. 



