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Yellows is present to a considerable extent at South 
Vineland.  Quote from letter of John C. Wheeler, Jan. 27, '88.

E. Williams, of Montclair, N.Y., Secy. State Hort. Soc.,
knows no peach growers in New Jersey Counties named in my letter. There
are no farms or fruit growers in Hudson Co.  This county is
made up of cities and marsh land.  He will write to Ocean,
Sussex, and Passaic Co., to determine for me whether yellows
occurs.

Charles Miller, of Greenwich, Cumberland Co., N.J., reports
yellows in all the orchards.  Quote from his letter of
Feb. 4, 1888. [See p. 303]

According to Wm. Redmond, of Jamesburg, Middlesex
Co., New Jersey there is plenty of yellows in Middlesex Co., although he
has none in his own orchard of 25,000 trees.  He says he has
cured trees in the last stages of yellows by pouring boiling
water around the trunks.  Questionable if he knows yellows,
although he speaks of premature fruit--which he ascribes to
wet weather, and of the wiry growth,  which he thinks is due
to the tree having been frozen, and should be cut off where
        