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by anybody who will take the trouble to look and see for himself
with an ordinary pocket lens, or to inquire with his
nose, if he has no lens, and no 'cold in his head', that we 
look on all discussion as to the cause of the yellows as time
thrown away." Thos. Meehan. Gard. Mo., 1879, p. 20.

"Yellows has made its appearance in one or two orchards
about Grimsby, Canada." Canadian Horticulturist".-- Gard. Mo.,
1879, p. 47.

A South Haven correspondent of Gard. Mo. 1879. p. 207,
speaks of "thickened spots in the pith of the bearing wood."

Mr. Parnell's Georgia peach orchard contains 156,000
trees. We suppose there are few if any so large in America
--Gard. Mo., 1886. p.177. [Visit.]

D. S. Myer, Bridgeville, Del., in an interesting article
in the Gardeners' Mo., Philadelphia, 1880, pp. 206-7 on "The
peach Aphis" says:--"We know but little about the yellows here
in fact I don't know that I can say I could certainly point
out one single case of the yellows. x x Some six or eight
years ago* the peach aphis visited us in unprecedented numbers
destroying most of the trees one year planted, and severly [severely] injuring

*Apparently they all open the fennicula at this time see Col.
Wilkins account. No Yellows in Bridgeville in 1888.
        