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the tree, called the yellows, attended by numerous weakly
shoots on the limbs generally, is attributed to insects by a
late writer in our newspapers." [(This is "yellows" as we know
it now, beyond much doubt)] p. 194.  Dr. T. also speaks of
"measures proposed in our newspapers for curing the yellows."
p. 105, Ibid.

On page 196, Dr. T. says: "In my jaunt through Maryland
I was attentive to the subject of your letters.  I found the
peach trees generally were long-lived, healthy, and bore well.
In Edward Lloyd's garden, [at Wye House, near Tunis Mills, Talbot, Co.] I observed some of these trees
fifteen or eighteeen inches in diameter, and perfectly healthy.
Col. Nichols,  near Easton, [Md.], abounds in the best kinds
of peaches.  He is an old residenter, and particularly attentive
to fruits."

8.  "On peach trees." by Timothy Matlack, Esq., Lancaster, 
[(Pa.)], 7 March, 1808," Ibid pp. 278-284.  Knows about borers,
but makes no mentnion of "yellow."

"This disease [yellows] which has hardly been known in
Ohio, [(1878)] except by name, has caused much trouble and
apprehension among the peach growers of the lake shore district
of Michigan for a year or two past.  It has ruined 
quite a <s>large</s> number of large orchards, and seems to be still
        