66 THE PEACH 



proper way to restore our diseased peach districts 

 and sections of the country to a healthy condition 

 as peach growing regions, and I think that this 

 may be found in my practice of treatment in peach 

 growing for the last thirty years, and as recom- 

 mended here in these pages with the vigilant pre- 

 cautions I have pointed out. 



INDICATION OF YELLOWS. 



In the yellows the bearing tree in its. incipient 

 stage of disease shows a premature ripening of the 

 fruit, sometimes only in a single branch, or even 

 a fruit spur, and on other trees the fruit on a large 

 limb may present the same early maturity, while 

 in both trees the balance of the fruit retains its 

 natural green, thrifty condition, and to all appear- 

 ances perfectly healthy, but as the disease pro- 

 gresses the fruit continues to be affected gradually 

 in the same way up to the ripening of the healthy 

 crop. I have known many fruit growers to be 

 deceived with these appearances, supposing that in 

 this early maturity they had a new variety of 

 great value, which could be increased by inocula- 

 tion ; and for a time the supposed new fruit was 

 quietly spoken of in a very confidential way. But 

 alas ! the next year's appearance of both fruit and 



