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5.  "The taste of diseased fruit cannot be exactly described
for want of appropriate words."  The word insipid almost
describes it.  There is an absence of all agreeable
flavor, and there is not much that is disagreeable.  A few
sorts retain, in spite of disease, some of their exquisite
peach flavor.

6. The whole tree is not at once affected. Sometimes 
only one branch at first, "the rest of the tree having every
appearance of health."

7.  The tree sometimes dies the next year after the 
appearance of the disease, and sometimes lingers along with a
feeble life for two or three years.  Sooner or later, however,
it is overcome by the disease. "I have never known,
nor have I heard authentically, of any tree recovering from
it."

8. "Soil whether clay or sand, whether moist or dry,
whether cultivated of in grass, manured or unmanured, does not
appear to me, clearly, either to increase or diminish the
liability to disease."

9. "Trees standing in exposed and sheltered situations
walled and in open grounds, on hills and in valleys, seem
alike and equally liable to the yellows."
        