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kept in check; while where little or no attention has been
paid to the removal of diseased trees, whole orchards soon
became diseased and all the trees are now dead.

Letter of Feb. 6, 1888.

Yellows never appeared at Spring Lake, Mich., according
to Frances Hall, but the trees were killed by the extreme cold.  Once
there were about 50,000, now not more than 10,000 and most
all hurt badly.  Few now planting.  Attention turned to
small fruits.  Letter of Feb. 1, 1888.

[Determine if possible from other parties whether it is
really true that yellows is not present.  What becomes of
the hard winter theory if this be true?]  In 1873 Mr. Chamberlain
quoted another man to the effect that yellows was present at
Spring Lake.  This man saw diseased peaches in the market & [illegible]
afterwards to examine f'd [found] them on trees in an orchard. Mich. Pom.
Rep. 1873.

Dr. W. S. Maxwell, of Still Pond, Md., says in letter
of Feb. 12, 1888: "I saw very few peach trees on my trip
through Harford Co."  He has written a Harford friend
asking information and will send it on when received.  "The
peaches grown in Western Maryland along the Blue Ridge mountains
are the finest I have ever seen.  They look like wax."
        