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THE TREE DOCTOR 



PEACH YELLOWS, ETC. 





What is "Peach yellows?" Nobody seems to know. The 

 most reliable, practical and scientific botanists have been em- 

 ployed by the U. S. Agricultural Department to give the sub- 

 ject a thorough investigation. They all agree in one thing, 

 namely; "there is nothing in the disease that can be recognized 

 as a living organism." 



Nine-tenths of what is supposed to be "yellows" (perhaps 

 ninety-nine hundredths) is starved or dried-up trees, or lack of 

 potash or some mineral in the soil. The peach, like the pear, 

 develops the flower before the leaf-bud is fully expanded. In 

 warm winters, in north temperate latitudes, peaches are often 

 brought forward too early and severely injured. Here, the peach 

 ought to be coming into bloom from the twentieth of April to 

 the first of May. In 1885, on the eleventh of March, peach trees 



Photo 88 

 The Linden is Beautiful. 



