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epidemic.  From perfect verdure its leaves turned yellow in
a few days[?], and the bodies blackened in spots.  Those
distant from that point of infection, gradually caught the 
disease.  I procured young trees from a distance, in high
health and planted them among those least diseased.  In
a few weeks[?] they became sickly and never recovered." Other
kinds of fruit trees "were not in the least disordered."

He finally dug out all of them.

"After my general defeat and most complete overthrow, in 
which the worm had no agency, I recruited my peaches from
distant nurseries; not venturing to take any out of those in
my vicinity.  I have since experienced a few instances of
this malady; and have promptly, on the first symptoms appearing,
removed the subjects of it, deeming their cases desperate in
themselves, and tending to the otherwise inevitable destruction
of others."

Mr. Peters says Edward Heston in his neighborhood has
"7 or 800 trees" x x "now in vigour and very productive" and
farther on written apparently considerably later,--"Mr H. begins to suffer by the disease I call
the 'yellows' [(page 25. First use of the word)] though he has
fewer worms, than common in other modes [of cultivation]."
        