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part into peach, part into apricot, and part into almond stocks.
Some of the inoculations took well, but all showed marks of
disease the next season.  The peach and almond stocks with
their buds died the second winter after inoculation.  One
apricot stock lived five years, but its peach top grew in
that time to be only about three feet high." [Not explicit
enough.]

16. "In an orchard or garden containing both old and
young trees, the young tree will generally be diseased first,
the old trees last." [Yes! E. F. S. 1891 ]

17. Thinks there is some difference in varieties. 'I
incline to the opinion that the Connecticut Red Rareripe and
the Early Ann are the last to take the yellows.  Dr. Monson
of this city thinks a white cling of natural growth, 'endures
the longest of any in a healthy state.'  With the exception
of those three varieties, all, whether old sorts originated
in times beyond the memory of man, or new ones sprung the
very last year from seed, appear equally susceptibe of the
disease."

18. "Peach trees budded on apricots, plums, and sweet
almonds are liable to the yellows."
        