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There is a yellows law in Canada.  Ask L. Wolverton,
Secy. Ont. Fruit Growers Association, Grimsby, Canada, about
it. - Garfield.

"Peaches.  People in this region have become very much
discouraged in regard to raising this delicious fruit.  The
trees have the yellows in many cases before they begin to
bear, and if they bear at all, it is only for one or two
seasons; seedlings, or some inferior sort, may be an exception.
The choice standard varieties, if they bear so much as one
season, do not last.  One of your committe [committee]<s>till</s> ten years ago,
raised as fine peaches as could be desired, and in great
abundance, but now, on the same ground, with much pains, is
unable to get any worth naming.

"The theory of Van Mons, 'that the improvement of the
quality of the fruit is at the expense of the life of the
tree' and 'that those trees which produce the most delicate
fruit are short-lived' may afford a hint in regard to the
difficulty of raising peaches."  Report of "Geo. Gabriel,
A. S. Munson, V. M. Douw, H. Terry and W. W. Turner, Committee
for the State of Connecticut." - "Proceedings of the Second
Congress of Fruit Growers, convened under the auspices of the
        