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doing at all is worth doing well," and this should be a very important 

 motto to the frait grower. And indeed the work is not so laborious 

 as might be supposed, if only the proper tools are brought into use : a 

 good pair of pruning-shears for young trees, and a Water's tree-pruner 

 for larger ones, will do a great deal of execution in a day, and amply 

 repay the trouble in the increased thrift ond vigor of the trees so 

 treated. 



(5) Wet land should he xtnderdrained. Nothing will sooner im- 

 pair the vigor of the peaclf tree than water standing about its roots ; 

 and a low state of health will predispose the tree to an attack of the 

 yellows. A complete system of tile drains will therefore not merely 

 pay in the increased yield of fruit, but may help largely in warding 

 off the great enemy that threatens such wholesale slaughter of the 

 orchards themselves. 



(6) Use plenty of fertilizers. Ashes, lime, and manure may all 

 be used with success in the work of increasing the vitality of the peach 

 tree, and so enabling it the better to repel disease. It is even thought 

 that in cases where a tendency only to disease has manifested itself, 

 an entire renovation and cure of the tree may be hoped for through 

 the use of judicious fertilizers, united with careful cultivation and 

 pruning. 



(7) Grain crops must not he grown about peach trees. This un- 

 wise course has been pointed out by Mr. Downing as among the 

 probable causes of the devastation caused by the yellows in the middle 

 States, about the year 1814. And certainly we shall be on the safe 

 side if we avoid totally what is acknowledged to be an evil in any 

 orchard. 



We would also suggest that in every peach growing section (8) a 

 committee he appointed, of men acquainted with the nature and 

 symptoms of the yellows, whose duty it shall be to make annual visits 

 to, any orchards supposed to be infested, and to point out to the 

 respective owners any cases of yellows they may find, advising the 

 immediate eradication of them; nor would we stop there, but 

 would advocate the enacting of a law by the Legislature, by which 

 the said committee, or an inspector appointed for the purpose, 

 might have the power to enforce the cutting out of all such trees. 

 This may seem to some a superfluous course, but so would it seem in 

 the case of the Canada Thistle, yet we all know how often these are 



