Recent Studies on Peach Yellows and Little Peach 



thought to have reached Connecticut about 1815, but was not re- 

 ported from Canada until about 1870. 



"Little peach" was first discovered in Michigan in 1893, and was 

 reported at Marlton, N. J., in 1905 and 1906. It was identified in 

 two trees at Vineland in 1907. It is now more or less generally dis- 

 tributed throughout the state. 



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Fig. 2 — Typical Yellows Shoot Upon a Young Tree the Second 

 Season in the Orchard 



Distribution 



Peach yellows appears to be confined to a more or less definite sec- 

 tion of the United States and the peach district of Ontario, Canada. 

 The region in the United States extends south from Massachusetts 

 to South Carolina along the Atlantic coast and west to Michigan, 

 Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. The southern boundary crosses 

 northern Oklahoma and Arkansas, includes most of Tennesse and 



