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p. 458 of Baker's "Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture" Boston,
Lee A. Sheppard, 1866.

Dr. Fitch recommends "a strong solution of soft soap."
The roots should be immersed in these when the trees are removed
from the nursery.  They form excresences in the roots.

Page 473 of Baker, quoting Berkeley, speaks of dropsy in
in plants due to prolonged rainy weather.  In such weather
the circulation is slow and the evaporation small. Growths
at such a season are watery and tender,  and the fruit is almost
without flavor.  Foliage of young shoots may become
white or sickly yellow, and both fruit and foliage drop off
prematurely.  This of the apple.

A corrspondent of the Farmers' Cabinet in 1839 states
that in earlier volumes of the same Journal he has found
eighteen papers recommending "alkaline substances for the prevention
of cure of the premature decay of pear and peach trees".
He believes in this remedy himself. p. 279. Genessee Farmer.
Aug. 31, 1839.
        