
          173

In The Cultivator, Albany, N.Y., 1840, p. 95, under date
of West Chester, Ct., Feb. 1840, David Foote asks the Editor
what is the matter of his peaches.  "I have a number of trees
of the yellow kind which ripens usually about the first of
October; but last season [1839] they bore fruit resembling
the red rare ripe, and ripened about a month earlier than
ever before.  Now the question is: What is cause of this
change of color and time of ripening?  I cannot tell unless
it is caused by some disease which may cause the premature death
of the trees."

On p. 95 of The Cultivator, 1841, the yellows is distinguished
from the borer by that Journal, which says: "Within
a few years a disease called the yellows has destroyed many
of the best trees or orchards in the Northern or Middle States.

The worm may be destroyed, but the cause of the yellows 
is not known.

Ibid. p. 131, D. Tomlinson, of Schenectady, N.Y., June 28,
1841, tells now to destroy the borer, and adds: "The yellows
is complained of at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and in New England. It
has not appeared here."
        