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the disease called the yellows is very destructive, and has
destroyed thousands of trees throughout the county, and will
destroy thousands more, until cultivators will procure their
trees from healthy localities, and will be willing to bestow
some care and attention on them when planted and fruiting.
The disease is eminently contagious, and is capable of being
propagated, we believe, from blossom to blossom, by insects,
and as yet we have found no effectual remedy." Ibid. p. 138.

Hon. John M. Niles, writing on "pomology" in Tr. Conn.
Agric. Society, 1855, Hartford; Case, Tiffany & Co., 1856,
p. 187, says: "Our severe and long winters and cold springs
render the peach an unreliable fruit here; yet it is worthy
of cultivation for family use if not for market."

In 1866, Wm. H. White, of South Windsor, Conn., writes
that peaches are infested with yellows and are generally
"things of the past." p. 169 Report. Conn. Board of Agric.
1866; Hartford, 1867.

Wm. C. Yoemans, of Columbia, writes (Ibid. p. 173): "Of
        