
          187

"Trees twenty years old and upwards are frequently seen
in Western New York; and in the town of Farmington, Ontario
Co., are the remains of an Indian orchard, containing peach
trees a foot in diameter and probably fifty years old, in a
bearing state." Ibid. p. 256.

"The 'yellows' in Peach Trees." By Noyes Darling, New
Haven, Ct., Dec. 2, 1844. pp. 60-62 of The Cultivator, Albany,
N. Y. 1845.

This valuable paper was evidently the result of experience,
shrewd observation, careful reading, and good reasoning
I quote as follows:

"About 1795 peach trees in the neighborhood of Philadelphia,
began to die without any apparent cause.  Soon after
they begain to perish more and more remotely from that city.
By 1810 few peach trees were left alive in the State of New
Jersey.  They began to die around New York about 1801, and
in the Stae [State] of Connecticut, about 1815."  The unknown cause
of this strange death was called yellows.

He makes a clear distinction between borers and yellows.
"There are two marks or symptoms by which the presence of the
disease is indicated.  One is the shooting out from the body
        