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form of Bacteria that causes peach-yellows, and I do 

 not despair of a remedy following this discovery. The 

 world moves — science is progressive — God reigns. 



SYMPTOMS OF YELLOWS. 



Along the branches of a tree, perhaps along one 

 branch, perhaps on several, or all of the branches, but 

 not often on all, for the tree dies before all become 

 affected, we see, growing perpendicularly, and generally 

 on the upper side, slender, wiry shoots, some long, some 

 short, with mean, starved-looking leaves. Then, in the 

 second place, we have the fruit ripening prematurely, 

 from fifteen to thirty days before it should be ripe. It is 

 spotted with beautiful red, or entirely colored — the fatal 

 hectic flush — and is of full size and handsome. 



Then we have the yellow, sickly-looking foliage, and 

 the fruit lacks flavor. If the tree lives until the second 

 year, the fruit is reduced greatly in size, to one-half or 

 one-fourth, is mean-looking and poor, yet still having 

 marks of the beautiful red in spots, or coloring half, or 

 more, of the peach. The color runs into the peach 

 around the stone. In some trees the trouble may come 

 in the fruit the first year, and not until the second year 

 may the wiry shoots, characteristic of the disease appear. 

 The tree may die very rapidly in a few weeks, or even 

 days, but usually it lasts two seasons, and in some cases 

 trees may linger, if let alone, for from three to five 

 years. 



