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V. Diseased trees seldom bear fruit of any sort. Most growers deny 
that such trees ever bear premature fruit, but one man who has lost two 
orchards insists that he has seen it. No fruit could be found in Georgia 
peach orchards in 1890, and this point was necessarily left unsettled 
VI. The disease occurs in wild and cultivated plums, to which it is 
quickly fatal. Thousands of the wild Chickasaw plum (Primus Chicasu) 
have been killed by it during the last few years. I also saw it in two 
Japanese varieties—Kelsey and Bhotan—and in one or two American 
varieties probably derived from P. Ghicasa. 
If this malady is yellows, our definition of that disease must be some¬ 
what modified and enlarged to include the plum or at least certain 
varieties of it. My previous statements relative to the immunity M 
the plum were based on observations north of Virginia and had special 
reference to varieties of Primus domestica. 
This disease has been in upper middle Georgia for at least 10 year.*, 
and during this time has destroyed whole orchards. With some note¬ 
worthy exceptions it has not swept away budded orchards as quickly as 
the yellows of the North, but it takes some trees every year, and is evi¬ 
dently a dangerous enemy. This is true especially, because of its preva¬ 
lence in the hardy wild plum which grows everywhere. During my visit 
I saw the disease in twelve counties : Fulton, Clayton, Campbell, Henry, 
Spalding, Pike, Meriwether, Coweta, Troup, Talbot, Harris, and Mus¬ 
cogee, and heard of it in ten others: Upson, Monroe, Bibbs, Butts, 
Jasper, Putnam, Greene, Taliaferro, Morgan, and Oglethorpe. It is 
widespread and well established in that part of Georgia. 
The disease attacks cultivated and neglected orchards, young and 
old trees, seedlings and budded fruit. If anything, it is more prevalent 
in thickets and waste places, the edge of forests, and on the borders of 
streams, or by the wayside, than in orchards. It is not restricted to 
any special kind of soil or prevented by any method of cultivation, ft 
occurs on the common red clays, on the gray and granitic sandy lands, 
and on a chocolate-colored, deep, fertile loam, commonly called “mu¬ 
latto land.” 
A disease which appears to be identical (see Pis. xi-xiii) occuis 
also in Kansas. So far as known, it is now present only at Manhattan, 
and has not yet appeared in the important peach districts of southern 
and southeastern Kansas. 
The attention of the writer was first directed to the disease by M/. 
T. C. W~ells, who sent specimens in 1889. The malady continued in 1890, 
when Dr. Kellerman also sent specimens and made inquiries. Later in 
the year I was able to examine it more carefully in the orchards them¬ 
selves. 
The farm of Mr. Wells is in the Kansas Biver valley, on a fertile, 
rolling prairie, about midway between the bottom lands and the lime¬ 
stone hills, i. e.,on what is called the u second bottom.” The soil is a 
dark and a very deep loam, gradually shading into a reddish brown, 
