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the disease, as it appeared, the tree was removed, 

 u root and branch," at once, to prevent any spread 

 from contagion. I may remark, just here, and 

 and most emphatically, that "at once" is the time 

 to be observed in the removal of the diseased tree 

 suffering no delay to ripen up the approaching 

 promising crop and on the appearance of but a 

 single specimen of immature fruit eradicate the 

 whole tree ; manifesting no sympathy, nor itching 

 palm, to be relieved by a gold dollar or two in pros- 

 pect of the crop ; and no penny-wise and pound- 

 foolish system of economy to be indulged in ; but 

 strike at once at the root of the evil, and save your- 

 self, from, perhaps, a tenfold sacrifice. 



Returning to the subject of the diseased lot of trees, 

 spoken of above, in the course of a couple of years 

 the disease ceased, and the balance remained 

 healthy, requiring no further attention than the 

 ordinary culture, and so continued, producing 

 heavy crops, in years of bearing, with the rest of 

 the orchard. The strongest evidence that this lot 

 of trees became diseased in the nursery was the 

 fact, that the rest of this orchard, and the others, 

 planted mostly with trees from entirely a different 

 section, exhibited no such appearance of disease, 

 but only occasionally, here and there, one or two 

 over a field of some twenty or twenty-five acres, 

 continuing thus for perhaps some two or three 

 years, but altogether outside of the lot of di scased 

 trees above referred to. I do not think that 1 lost 



