1906] REPORT OF COMMITTEES. 75 



I think the yellows is a climatic condition. When I first be- 

 gun to grow grapes the vines died and I found the cold winter 

 had killed vines down to the roots and I think it is this that 

 injures the trees. We never hear of yellows in grapes, still 

 they have the same symptoms as yellows in peaches. 



Mr. Had^ven : Some sixty years ago I was engaged in peach 

 culture. I planted seeds from which I raised my trees. Some 

 of these trees lived fifty years. I did as Mr. Cook advises, 

 budded my own trees. 



I do not agree with Mr. Cook in regard to the yellows. This 

 disease was imported into this country in 1818. It is first dis- 

 covered in the premature ripening of the peach. It is all 

 through the nothern sections of the country and in the southern 

 sections where buds have been sent from the north to the south. 



If any one is begining peach culture to-day he should send to 

 the sections where the yellows is unknown and then his trees 

 would be exempt. Still I think the better way would be to 

 plant his own seed from peaches wholly free from yellows and 

 not bud them. Run the risk of having natural fruit. It will 

 have more stamina, resist heat and cold, and be more productive. 

 In Georgia they have transferred buds from the north to the 

 south that I think have inherited the disease for I had a tree 

 from Georgia that manifested the yellows before it had been 

 planted two years. The disease was first brought mto Massa- 

 chusetts in 1840 from New Jersey. Before that the people of 

 Massachusetts had raised their own trees but found that they 

 could buy them cheaper from New Jersey. 



