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only here and there a sprig of verdure. x x In this island
the malady became exhausted some years since, by the utter
destruction of the old orchards, and teh determination not to
plant new ones until it became extinct.  This course proved
most fortunate as the disease has been for years banished
from Long Island, and now new orchards are springing up everywhere
x x 'redolent with health'. "

He adds that yellows is never imbibed by any peach tree
until it has blossomed--incisions excepted.  Says they do
not blossom until the second year.  Mr. Downing in an editorial
note says he thinks the disease may spread from diseased 
stocks and adds "We agree with Mr. Prince, that the yellows
is fast disappearing, and trust, in a few years, as good cultivation
becomes general, it will entirely disappear". [How 
wide of the mark he shot!]

The Galen Courier reported an immense crop of peaches
in Union and Jackson counties, Ill., in 1860.--1,000,000
bushels. [Can this be true?]

"L. F." states in Gardeners' Monthly 1872, p. 118, that yellows
has commenced it ravages at St. Joe., Mich., where he 
has a twenty acre orchard.
        