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"But there is another malady, which I believe is unknown
in New England, or at least I have never seen or heard of
such disease with us.  It is by some called the yellows;
and according to Mr. Coxe, 'the malady which destroys much
the largest portion of the trees, has hitherto baffled every
effort to subdue it; neither the source nor the precise
character of the disease appears to be perfectly understood.
The trees are further stated to languish, the leaves turn
yellow and they perish shortly.  The disease is contagious,
soon spreading through a whole orchard; and if trees are
brought from a second nursery, and planted on the same land,
they usually perish during the first season.  And the infected
soil cannot be again occupied as a peach orchard until
some years of intermediate cultivation.  The only remedy I
have heard of for the destruction of this disease, is to destroy
at once the infectious trees, before the disease is communicated
to the whole orchard; which according to Mr. Prince
of the Linnaean Botanic Garden, as stated in Thacher's Orchardist,
is at the time the trees blossom in the spring." p. 263,
The New American Orchardist. By Wm. Kenrick. 8th Edition.
Boston: Otis, Broaders? & Co. 1848.
        