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At this time yellows was said to be present in New Jersey
from which it had occasionally been imported into Western New
York.--The Horticulturist. 1846. p.237.

"Yellows in peach trees."

The Horticulturist, 1846, pp. 212-14. L Wyman, Jr.,
states that he has communicated yellows to healthy trees, by
pruning--purposely done with an infected knife.

In same volume, pp. 318-19, W. B. Prince of Flushing
L.I., says: "Formerly it was a common saying about New York
that the yellows was attributable solely to the proximity of
the Lombardy Poplar, and that the introduction of that tree
formed the fatal era for the introduction of the yellows and
was the cause of its perpetuity.  A general crusade was thereforth
carried into operation against the poor and unconscious
poplars until every one of them was exterminated. x x The
disease continued to traverse <s>all</s> the peach orchards of several
States, until an almost universal extermination took place,
and every one who will visit the once splendid peach orchards
in various parts of New Jersey [1846] will be struck by the
desolate aspect of immense plantations of dead trees, with
        