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that its branches, when moved by the wind, instead of the
graceful waving of health, have a stiff jerking motion.  These
two last mentioned symptoms will not readily be seen but by a practiced
eye." p. 60.

Mr. Darling sums up what further he has to say in twenty
one propositions.  The subsance of <s>the more important</s> of
which is given below:-

1. The shoots do not ripen their wood perfectly. "They
continue in a great degree herbaceous till frost comes." They
perish the succeeding winter because of this, or because no
buds are formed.

2. The fruit may be diseased before the shoots appear.
"I have never seen the slender shoots on any part of the tree
without the fruit, if there was any, being affected."

3. Fruit is usually of proper size, the first season--
much smaller after that.

4. "Whatever the natural color of the fruit--red, yellow,
white, or cream, it is more or less, when diseased, colored
with purplish red; generally in specks or coarse dots.  The 
flesh, quite close to the stone, is often colored, and most deeply
around the stone.  By the colored specks a person can easily
distinguish by the eye, diseased from healthy fruit, as it is
offered in market."
        