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healthy one, in the manner of inoculation, will communicate
the disease; the proprietors have, therefore,
no doubt of the contagion being spread by the
farina of the blossoms of infected Trees, as the first
notice we have of it is the premature ripening of
the fruit; and, it being an established fact, that the
sap has a regular circulation through the branches,
leaves, and fruit, the fruit being first affected, communicates
it to the Tree; and, when once the Tree
is affected, no human means can restore it: for, if
any thing would effect it, taking the buds from a diseased
Tree, and inoculating them on a healthy
stock, would do it; but, instead of being restored,
it communicates the infection to the healthy stock.
The only possible remedy, and one which must be
obvious to every one, is the removing every diseased
Tree from the Orchard or Garden.

By attending to the system laid down in the following
directions, the proprietors have been enabled
to keep the Trees in their Nursery perfectly
healthy, and to have their bearing Trees produce
as fine fruit as ever they did before the disease in
Peach Trees commenced, which began in the State
of New-York in the year 1801.

Directions.

Let every Tree which has been known to produce
its fruit prematurely be immediately removed;
and if it is desired to have a Peach Tree planted in
the same place where a diseased Tree has been removed
from, let a large hole be dug, so as to remove
all the roots, that the roots of the new planted Tree
may not, in one season, come in contact with them.
After all the diseased Trees are removed, let the
greatest attention in summer be paid to the ripening
of the fruit; and where fruit is found to ripen two,
three, or four weeks before the usual time, you
may conclude that the Tree has taken the infection;
        