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the contrary; for new and vigorous trees, from healthy districts,
and set on the best of soils, and under the most prudent
management, have fallen a prey to this formidable malady."
--p. 184.

"Premature ripening<s>s</s> always attends the yellows, the unnatural
shoots generally, but not always."-- Ibid. p. 185.

"Healthy trees, inoculated with buds from diseased trees,
soon become affected also."--Ibid. p. 185.

He speaks guardedly on most points, but dogmatically on
the above--says it is a "well established fact."

Thinks it may doubtless be conveyed from tree to tree by
bees in pollen of diseased trees.

In "An Epitome of Mr. Forsyth's Treatise on the Culture
and Management of Fruit Trees." By an American Farmer, Phila,
1804, wherein are several pages of notes on peach trees in
America by the Editor, I find no mention of  "yellows". He
says: "Peaches are in some variety, and ripen to great perfection
in the Middle and Southern States; as with but a
        