
          167

also, pp. 95-6, quotes Goessman and is inclined to think that
fertilizers enable the tree to resist yellows or even recover
from it.  He quotes Transactions Mass. Hort. Society, 1882,
part I. pp. 120 and 130.

"Peach Yellows.-- This is by far the most serious disease
to which this tree is subject. x x x it is stated by 
Prof. Goessman that chronic cases of 'yellows' have been recovered,
after a treatment of three or four years, by the 
use of Muriate of potash applied to the roots." Ibid. pp. 166-7.

S. W. Cole, in The American Fruit Book, Boston, 1849,
gives a very good account of peach yellows, including premature
fruit. p. 184.

The American Orchardist, By James Thacher, M.D., Boston,
[When published?]

In "The Southern Apple and Peach Culturist, etc." By 
James Fitz, Keswick, Va., J. W. Fitz, editor; Published by
J. W. Randolph & English, Richmond, Va., 1872, I find the
following: "It [the peach] was introduced into this country
        