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Ibid. p. 273, Mr. Lorin Blodgett writes: "I send
herewith the stem of a seedling peach tree just withering
from the effects of a new scourge, the root aphis, I think
which clustered thickly around the stem, from two inches down
up to the surface.  I lost almost all my seedling peach trees
from this cause last year and this year.  I think some three
years ago also.  Is it new?"  Mr. B. also say "Yellows" has
killed all my large trees.

"Peach Root Aphis." By Chas. Black Hightstown N.J.,
Mr. B. seem well informed and I quote most of his letter.
"I am surprised that it should be considered new. I think
very few observing peach growers, especially nurserymen, who
grow young trees would call it new,--it has committed such
damage to young trees that all ought to remember it.  I have
for years past in favorable seasons seen more or less of it
on the roots of young tree; they are brown or black, and
cluster on the small roots of the trees, and whereever[wherever] a
cluster of them forms on the roots they suck out the sap and
life of each individual root that they may be on, and it will
die, and others be alive that are free from the aphis.  When
in sufficient numbers, they kill the tree outright--they often
        