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ly the case, for occasionally in August I found terminal shoots which had 

 become much brauclied and were otherwise diseased exactly like those shoots 

 which grew from obscure buds on the branches or trunk. This manifesta- 

 tion of the disease upon teriLinal shoots appears not to have been observed 

 very generally. A. J. Downing says it never occurs; A. G. Gully never saw 

 it. Possibly, it is more prevalent in the South. In Georgia it occurs early 

 in tiie season and appears to be the common form of the malady, whole trees 

 of robust growth being diseased nearly or quite throughout. 



In September and October I also saw not a few yellows infected trees, on 

 which all the buds of certain terminal shoots had just begun to develop into 

 branches, although these shoot axes had previously appeared healthy through- 

 out. Often, much earlier in the season, I saw robust shoots from the trunk 

 and main limbs, the lower parts of which showed every indication of health, 

 the leaves being large and dark green and the wood and bark all that could be 

 desired; yet, as growth progressed, these lusty shoots, some of them four or 

 five feet long, developed at the apex into a complex of repeatedly ramified, 

 feeble branches covered with innumerable diminutive, pale green, willowy 

 leaves. Sometimes from a healthy looking main limb grew out two year- 

 ling shoots within an inch of each other, one of them being diseased in 

 the manner described and the other being unbranched and perfectly healthy, 

 with vigorous dark green foliage. Such shoots were upon trees but recently 

 attacked. 



The relation of the diseased to the healthy portions of the tree were in 

 some instances quite peculiar. The following are some of the more interest- 

 ing cases, observed in August and September, 1887: 



Occasionally the diseased shoots grew out of the trunk or from the main 

 limbs, while nowhere else were there any indications of disease, such trees 

 being barren. 



Sometimes the diseased shoots grew out immediately above or immediately 

 below a healthy branch. 



Midway of its length a diseased branch sent out well developed shoots, then 

 two years old, which bore healthy leaves of normal size. This branch may 

 have become diseased the previous year. 



Midway of a healthy branch grew out a very characteristic yellows tuft. 

 Lower down grew out several branches, large and small, bearing full grown, 

 dark green leaves, while above the sickly tuft the branch divided four times 

 and the sub branches ramified considerably, all the parts bearing healthy leaves. 



On one part of a tree the limbs bore very healthy foliage and sent out from 

 their base exceedingly stocky yearling shoots, where four to five feet long and 

 bore large, healthy, dark green leaves. One limb, however, of this tree, also 

 beaiing healthy spring foliage, sent out along its branches, from obscure 

 buds, many of the characteristic, secondary, small, starved, light green twigs. 



Prematurely ripe peaches were sometimes found upon every main limb 

 mingled with healthy green ones. 



A tree bore premature peaches on every main limb and put ^forth a hun- 

 dred or more of the starved, secondary shoots from obscure buds on the body 

 and limbs, and yet showed no sign whatever of disease in the spring foliage 

 or in the growth of any of the terminal shoots, every one of these being well 

 devtdoped and provided with full grown, fine looking leaves. 



In another instance these pale, sickly shoots came out unbranched (August) 

 singly all over the tree, except on the trunk, the extreme base of the main 



