
          178

a long course of time, the best method to pursue towards
its eventual eradication, is to stop its progress, and prevent
its further extension--to accomplish which the following
means are recommended, which have been found particularly
successful.

"As soon as the tree is discovered to possess the characteristics
of the disease, which is generally know by the 
leaves putting on a sickly yellow appearance--but of which
the premature ripening of the fruit is a decisive proof--it
should be marked, so as to be removed the ensuing autumn,
which must be done without fail, for if left again to bloom,
it would impart the disease to many others in its vicinity;
care is also necessary in its removal to take out all the
roots of the diseased trees, especially if another is to be
planted in the same place, so that the roots may not come
in contact with any of those of the one which was diseased.

"If your neighbor has trees infected with the yellows in 
a quarter contiguous to yours, it will be necessary to prevail
on him to remove them, that  yours may not be injured by
them.  By being thus particular in speedily removing such
trees as may be infected, the disease is prevented from extending
itself to the rest of the orchard, and the residue
        