32 PEACH YELLOWS. 



September 17, 1889. Still diseased. The symptoms are confined principally to the 

 stump of the excised limb and to one other limb, the top of which was cut out in the 

 spring or summer daring my absence. No fruit this year. 



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 8 inch.es above the cut. One furk bore 230 prema- 

 ture 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 18 inches of the cut. The spring foliage was full-grown, dark- 

 green, and healthy. The winter buds were dormant and there were no other indica- 

 tions 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 red- 

 dish 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 germinating in a number of places upon both the main branches of a limb oppo- 

 site 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, Old Mixon. One limb was removed ; two limbs were 

 left. The excised limb biparted 14 inches above the cut. The larger fork bore 100 

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

 ture peaches, but also some green ones on tie 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 2 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, 6 feet above, and on the extremities of several 

 branches, at a distance of over 10 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 con- 

 tinues to look healthy. 



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

 reddish. 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, 18&8. Variety, Keeves's Favorite. One limb was removed. It 



