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E. M. Potter thinks yellows has never done much injury on "limestone"
soils.--Ibid. p. 257.

"Last season [(1877)] I received trees from Georgia, one
of which shows unmistakable signs of yellows, and the second
stage of the disease [(sprouts)], the tree having never blossomed."
--T. T. Lyon. Ibid. p.258.

"I have never seen a terminal bud exhibit this unhealthy
growth."--Gulley, Ibid. p. 258.

"The yellows once swept over New England in such form
that no peacher were raised for five or six years; then
trees were started, and in about fourteen years from the
first raid of the yellows it came again and cleared the
country of peaches."--Mr. Hanford. Ibid. p. 258.
[Prof. Jos. Satterlee know Mr. Hanford & says he is apt to
make careless statements]

"The orchards at St. Joseph where no means were taken to
check the disease, were used up pretty thoroughly in four or
five years.  In others where radical measures of extermination
were adopted this length of time was doubled.-- A.A. Olds.
Decatur. Ibid. p. 259.
        