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P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., in the Gard. Mo., 1881, p.83,
denies that peach yellows occurs in Georgia.  In his twenty 
five years experience he has never seen it south of New Jersey.
Thos. Meehan again<s>s</s> affirms that he saw plenty of yellows-
diseased trees in Mississippi along the "Jackson route" from
a car widow[window]. On p. [blank], 1881, a correspondent denies this.
Says he is "pretty well acquainted with the orchards along
the Jackson route," On p. 209, is another denial from Mississippi.
[Meehan's statement is not worth much in the face of
these denials.] [ Yet as a rule the statement of the man
who has seen is better than the
denial of  the man who has not seen]
It may have been Rosette

"Yellows and Peach Culture." by Chas. Black, Highstown,
N. J., the Gard. Mo., 1882, pp. 111-112.  He thinks crowding
one cause.  Says: "If your trees are too thick pull out
every other row, and as a rule you will cure the yellows."
[Cf. Orchard of Alex. Fulton, of Dover.]  Says trees are sometimes
set as close as eight of ten feet, but that they should
be eighteen or twenty feeet apart. [In Fulton's orchard
the trees are 40 ft. apart, yet in 1887 I saw these in quite a 
number of well marked cases  - orchard near Glass Factory.]
* & many [illegible] of land in 1888 & 1889, 1890
Hon. Lorin Blodgett, on "History of the Peach in America."
in the Gard. Mo., 1882, p. 347, quotes a letter from Wm. Penn
Aug. 16, 1683, which says:--"The fruits I find in the woods
are white and black mulberry, chestnut, walnut, plumbs, strawberries,

* In early part of July 1888,  I rexamined [reexamined] this orchard &
found my first ex. had been correct. E.[F.] S. this whole orchard was
ruined by yellows in 1886-90.
        