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fair analogy, the Judge considered it in connection 

 with his inquiry into the cause of the yellows, but 

 he differed with Sir Joseph in his correct conclu- 

 sions, that fungi was the cause of the disease, and 

 not the effect, and produced disease in healthy liv- 

 ing vegetable matter. These conclusions, it seems 

 to me, leave no room for doubt. Knowing that 

 moss, lichens, fungi and vegetable matter were de- 

 stroyed by caustic lime and potash, I concluded 

 that a good coat of caustic lime, which was less 

 expensive than ashes, could do no harm to the trees, 

 at least if it did no good. So I ordered fifty bush- 

 els to the acre for twenty acres, but fortunately, 

 through some mistake, seventy-five bushels to the 

 acre were sent, and it was all spread, the land be- 

 ing first broken up deep, and well harrowed, and 

 the lime, after spreading, harrowed in. The rows 

 were struck eighteen by eighteen feet apart, of the 

 depth of the original plowing; this, at the inter- 

 section of the cross-checking, made a place for each 

 tree, only wanting a little levelling of the earth to 

 receive them. One thousand trees were planted in 

 the best part of. the plot if there was any best 

 part to it. The ground in peaches was planted in 

 corn, and the balance of the field sown down in 

 oats and clover, arid the corn, after the last dress- 

 ing in the peach lot, was also sown down with 

 clover. The following spring all the field was 

 plowed down, and the balance planted with peach 

 trees, with other lands, making up 5,000 trees, and 



