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the second year after the grass has formed a sod around 
them. There are two causes which have operated against 
the success of this tree, and which seem pec 
one is a Worm which attacks the tree at the. root, near the. 
surface of the ground, and often totally. encincles it; the other . 
is a disease usually denominated the Yellows. 
The Worm.—The most proper course to obviate the de- 
predations of the worm is to examine the trees every spring 
and autumn, and to make an application of a mixture of 
fresh cow dung and clay to the wounds which have been 
made by them. Lime or ashés thrown around the roots of 
Peach trees are,found to prevent, in a great measure, the 
depredations of the worm. 
Yellows.—This disease, which commenced its ravages in 
New-Jersey and Pennsylvania about the year 1797, and in 
New-York in 1801, and has spread through several of the 
states, is by far more destructive to Peach trees than the 
worm, and is evidently contagious. ‘The disease is spreadat 
the time when the trees are in bloom, and is disseminated by 
the pollen or farina blowing from the flowers of diseased 
trees, and impregnating the flowers of those which are 
healthy, and which is quickly circulated by the sap through 
the branches, foliage, and fruit, causing the fruit, wherever 
the infection extends, to ripen prematurely. That this dis- 
ease is entirely distinct from the worm, is sufficiently proved 
by the circumstance, that Peach trees which have been ino- 
culated on Plum or Almond stocks, though never affected 
by the worm, are equally subject to the yedlows—and a deci- 
sive proof of its being contagious is, that a healthy tree, ino- 
culated froma branch of a diseased one, instead of restoring 
it to vigour and health, immediately becomes itself infected 
with the disease. As all efforts to totally subdue it must re- 
quire a long course of time, the best method to pursue to- 
wards its eventual eradication, is to stop its progress, and 
prevent its farther extension—to accomplish which, the fol- 
lowing means are recommended, which have “a found 
particularly successful in the orchards of the proprietor, as 
well as in those of others in his neighbourhood, which con- 
tinue to produce fruit of the finest quality and in the greatest 
abundance. 
As soon as a tree is Sarwucred to possess the characteris- 
tics. of the disease, which is generally known by the leaves 
putting onasickly yellow appearance—but of which the 
premature ripening of the fruit is a decisive proof—it should 
be marked, so as to be removed the ensuing autumn, which 
