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stock may become variegated. ]\Iuch of the former mys- 

 tery surrounding calico of tobacco is now easily explain- 

 able through infection in handling the calicoed and then the 

 normal plant. Taken early enough, I can calico every plant 

 in a tobacco field simply by touching the plants after I have 

 got juice on my hands from a calicoed plant. 



Finally, let me say a few words concerning what I be- 

 lieve we should do in this State regarding yellows. 1st, I 

 thoroughly believe in patronizing home industries, there- 

 fore I advocate as a rule buying trees from our local nur- 

 serymen. There are a number of things to be said in favor 

 of the purchase of trees at home, while the one point in 

 favor of the purchase of trees from the South is that such 

 trees come from a region where there is no 3^ellows. If, 

 however, yellows is as contagious as some fear, this advan- 

 tage would prove of little value, and there is the additional 

 danger of importing new troubles, such as the rosette, which 

 is of similar nature to the yellows. If, however, we loyally 

 patronize home nurseries, we have the right to expect from 

 them the very best trees that they can raise, and free from all 

 suspicion of yellows. Mr. Phillips of Virginia in a recent paper 

 advocates the purchase of peach pits from inspected orchard 

 trees in the South rather than the use of the so-called "natur- 

 al" pits. He bases this on the facts that the native peaches of 

 the mountainous districts do not furnish sufBcient supply for 

 the demand, that some yellows exists there, and that pits from 

 cultivated varieties are as good from a horticultural point of 

 view. While we might derive some benefit from the use of 

 certified pits from inspected trees in the South, and should take 

 advantage of such means if possible, still the great danger, 

 to my mind, lies in the careless or indiscriminate selection of 

 the buds. I have no doubt that our nurserymen use more or 

 less care in this respect, still I think that it would be of decided 

 advantage to them and their patrons if they used only buds 

 from trees that had recently been inspected by our State en- 

 tomologist and certified to as being free from all suspicion of 

 yellows and with no yellows in surrounding trees. This in- 



