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received on the several subjects above stated, "but no premium
was yet awarded except on "the best system of liberal and
literary instruction etc."

Vol. V. of same Trans. states that the premium was divided
between two persons, and in the Appendix p. 325-328 their brief
papers are given:-

(1) "Account of a Method of Preventing the Premature Decay of
Peach Trees.  By John Ellis of N. J."  This author attributes the
decay entirely to " a worm which originates from a large fly, that
resembles the common wasp; this fly perforates the bark and deposits
an egg etc."

(2) "Description of a Method of Cultivating Peach Trees, with a
view to prevent their premature decay, confirmed by the experience
of fory-five years in Delaware state and the Western parts of
Pennsylvania.  By Thomas Coulter, Esq., of Bedfored Co. Pennsylvania."
Mr C's view is as follows:-

"The death of young peach trees is principally owing to planting,
transplanting and pruning the same stock,  which occasions
it to be open and tender, with a rough bark, in consequence of
which insects lodge and breed in it, and birds search after them,
whereby wounds are made, the gum exudes, and in a few years the
tree is useless." p. 327.

[No mention of any symptoms like yellows in either paper]
Mr. C. cuts back his trees and gets new shoots. He say- "I have
        