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Result no worm, no yellows, no disease, long lived tree, 

 and a sure crop every year of the very finest fruit. The 

 mound freezing solid, kept the blooming back, he said, 

 a week or more, until the late frosts were past. I pro- 

 pose to try this on a few trees of each variety this 

 season. 



A LETTER FROM GROWER, NO. 22. 

 I have not your circular at hand. I think the 

 yellows are the result of neglect and starvation, and 

 sometimes largely attributed to the borer. I know that 

 yellows can be cured by applying to the soil the essential 

 normal elements of the constituents of the peach — bark, 

 pith, leaf and general fibre — which are readily determined 

 by careful analysis. Starvation is the principal and 

 chief cause of yellows. In my opinion, I consider it as 

 essential to restore, annually, to the soil, the ingredients 

 of the peach, as it is to do so for wheat or corn. I think 

 kainit very beneficial, as well as many other things. I 

 think if you propose writing an article on the peach, you 

 should urge the imperative necessity of organization — 

 systematic organization for the intelligent distribution 

 of our fruit. The millions of trees now being planted 

 will certainly create a great glut and consequent distress, 

 unless a central office shall daily receive telegraphic 

 reports from every station, of the quantity and destina- 

 tion of each car, and on finding more cars are 

 consigned to any one city than said city can readily 



