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winter he had letters from Hamilton, Ont., saying that peaches with
yellows had been imported there from N. Y. and the disease was
spreading.  Last year [1879 he saw yellows near Rochester and
saw that the commercial orchards there were being ruined by it.
The claim that they don't have it there is false.  In Delaware
they consider that a peach tree has passed its point of profitabe
bearing when it is five years old, and they then root them out
and plant anew (??!) * * * * * *

"Young trees set last Spring may show yellows this season, it
having been dormant in the nursery and developed by the shock of
transplanting or it may remain dormant until brought out by the
labor of fruitage.  The diseased growths oftenest come from where
otherwise there would be no buds." p. 274. * * * *
"Mr. Lyon had once obtained a lot of almonds from what he presumed
to be a perfectly healthy tree but the young trees soon showed yellows,
and on examination the old tree proved to be likewise diseased."
p. 274.  "When he finds yellows in young trees below the
bud, he presumes the stock to have been diseased; if above the bud
in the first year, he presumes the bud to have come from an infected
tree" [What if both above and below?]

"There was not much yellows there [So. Haven] until after the
severe winter of 1874-75, when about 5% of the trees were found
diseased and taken out.  Afterwards until this year [1880] there
was little of the disease manifest.  This year the disease
shows an increase." p. 274.
        