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in New Haven or vicinity, either in light sand or deep, rich
loam, they die of the yellows, some in one, some in two, all
in three or four years."
* * * *

"I cannot, from my own experience, say confidently
that it makes any difference, [as to infection] whether the trees are rooted up
when in full leaf or after the leaves have fallen."
[The belief at So. Haven, Mich., now is that cutting down the trees removes all
danger. They do not remove them from the orchard at once, often not for months, 1888.]

"At this time [1846] the extent of land set to peach
trees in New Castle, Co., Del., is stated [by J. W. Thompson, of
Wilmington, Del.,] to be from 2,5000 to 3,000 acres."  The
Cultivator, Albany, N.Y., 1846, p. 312.

Proceedings of the New Jersey State Horticulture Society
1886. Newark, N.J., 1887.

This contains Prof. Scribner's paper; and the discussion
on yellows,- pp. 175-187.

At Port Penn, Del., the old orchards were all out in
1862 and the young ones not in bearing to any extent. E. B. Pennington,
Kennedyville, Md., Letter of Jan.25, 
1888.
        