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and, as it gives you notice one whole season
previous to its power of spreading the contagion,
you can, by removing it, prevent its injuring the
other Trees; or if the Tree has taken the infection
when in blossom, and has lost its fruit before it
ripened, it will show that it has become diseased by
pushing out small, slender shoots, and frequently
in bunches of a pale yellow colour, from the body
and branches; and by observing the same appearance
on those Trees that have ripened their fruit
prematurely, you will soon be able to distinguish
the Trees that are diseased from those which are in
a healthy state, and by removing them before they
blossom, prevent their spreading the infected farina.
If your Peach Orchard, or Garden, where you have
Peach Trees growing, is contiguous to a neighbour's
who has diseased Trees, it will be necessary
to prevail on him to remove them, or they will injure
your's [yours].

To have thrifty Peach Trees, and fine fruit, the
ground should every year be kept cultivated, by
planting it with corn, potatoes, or other vegetables;
and every autumn or spring have some rotten
manure dug in around the Trees. Peach Trees remaining
more than one year in grass or sod ground
become unthrifty and yellow; it is, therefore, easier
to distinguish the diseased from healthy Trees in
cultivated ground.
        