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secure for them regular plowing, etc. which the tree feels
almost as quickly as a cabbage; the choice of exposed situations,
to avoid winter-killing  x x ; and the annual cutting
back of all young shoots to one-half or one-third the length
of their last season's growth x x x

"Severe winter pruning and good culture <s>culture</s> immediately
after the occurrence of the first indication will to all
appearances, perfectly restore the tree; but if these are
discontinued, it returns the following season to its former
state."--The American Home Garden.  By Alex. Watson. Harper
Bros., N.Y. 1867, pp. 252-3.

"The American Fruit Book." By S. W. Cole, Boston and New
York, 1849 contains two pages (184-5-6) of very sensible
remarks on peach "yellows", in which is a bery good account
of the disease.  I quote as follows:--
"The yellows, a disease peculiar to this country only,
is the most fatal of all evils to which the peach is subject.
So great has been its devastation, in some regions, that the
culture of this fruit has been entirely abandoned.  The
cause of the yellows has not been ascertained, and though
some attribute it to poor soil and bad culture (which may
have aggavated [aggravated] the evil) yet there are undeniable facts to
        