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side of the adjoining trees next to it will be affected next season.'
I had occasion to pass through Mr. C's orchard the next
fruiting time, and the sickly tree had been dug up, but, as had
been predicted, parts of the four neighboring trees were evidently
much affected but only the sides next to the diseased tree. ***

"On another occasion I had a favorite early purple peach
before I had a nursery, that I suspected was partially affected by
the yellows, and being desirous of preserving the variety, I cut
the healthiest branch I could get and I had 12 buds inserted in
healthy peach stocks, but when they had grown about 3 ft. they
showed the disease so plainly that in order to prevent it from 
spreading, I pulled up all the trees and had them burnt."--

Robert Sinclair, Clairmont Nursery [<s>illegible</s>] near Baltimore, Md., March 18, 1841, From
Magazine of Hortic.  Quoted in Farmer' Register, Petersburg, Va.
1841, pp. 337-8.

"The writer [Morris Longstreth, of Valley Green, Pa.?] had the
pleasure of examining the extensive peach orchard of Major Reybold
near Delaware city, in the month of May [1842]; at which time that
enetrprising [enterprising] farmer had a prosepect, as he stated, of about half a
crop.  It covered 120 acres of land, and contained 12,960 trees.
His half a crop has produced 6,000 baskets [Sept. 1] which have
been chiefly sent to the N.Y. market.&quot;--
Farmers Cabinet.  Quoted in The Farmers' Register, Petersburg,
Va., 1842., p. 478.
        