
          90

to spread, it will be only a question of years when peach growing
will cease on the lake shore."  Joseph Lannin, of S. Haven, in 1883
An. Rep. Sec. Mich. St. Hort. Soc. 1884, p. 11. [disease not serious since 1883 E.F.S. 1840.]

Yellows from Ga. in young trees. T. T. Lyon. Ib., p. 177.
[No facts I could get at in Md. of Del. indicate that soil poverty
has anything to do with yellows]

A. M. Purdy scouts soil poverty. Ib., p. 302.

N. Atwell, of Lawton, Mich. says it attacks trees on rich and
poor land, cultivated or not.  He has seen it in young orchards
on land covered four years previous with original forest. Ib., p.
302.

Opinion on the disease by G. H. LaFleur. Ib., pp. 390-91.
Cf. Do. A. Hamilton. Ib., p. 419.

"That dreaded scourge of the peach grower 'yellows' has made
slow but marked progress during the year in this locality.  The
law has not been observed as closely as it should be in the matter
of cutting and burning the trees at sight, nor yet in the shipping
of partially diseased fruit.  After all a great majority
of the leading fruit growers fully believe that as a rule those
who have cut out their trees at once as soon as discovered, have
not only got the most trees left, but have for a term of years lost
a much less percentage than those who have allowed their trees to
stand through the season in order to pick what fruit they were
able to obtain before cutting the tree down.  A large majority
        