
          103

Cr. consults Floy's <s>"Orchardest" or</s>"Guide to the Orchard". N.Y.
1833. being an Am. Ed. of Lindley.  He gives symptoms of yellows.

[Secure 400 peach trees budded on plum stock in a region free
from yellows.  Transplant to infected orchards in Md. and Del.
Plant side by side with these 200 unbudded plum trees of same age and from
same locality,.  Watch results for 4 years.]  1,000 were budded on Mariana stock in Aug., 1888, by J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md these are now ('March, 91') set in Md & Del. in dis'd [diseased] orchards.

Charles M. Hovey, never heard of Yellows in England or anywhere
in Europe, for this reason he thinks the disease may be climatic.
Trans. Mass. Hort. Society. 1882 Part I p. 131.

J. Croucher, recently from London, said that "the yellows is
not known in England". Ib. p. 131.

"45 years ago [1837] it [yellows] was unknown here, [Boston]
and when it came it swept everything"-- Jno. B. Moore- Tr. Mass.
St. Hort. Soc., 1882., Part I, p. 140.

"The chairman said that yellows is not caused by exhaustion of
potash, for it appears in new soils where there is no such deficiency"
-- Ib., p. 141.

"The yellows is not much known in the two lower counties of
Delaware [March 25, 1882], where the climate is wamer and not so
variable as ours; but they have it in N.J. and Pa. " - G. M. Hovey,
Ibid. p. 142.

        