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have "incipient" yellows, and probably others are as helpless.
What he calls incipient yellows and is able to cure
may not be yellows at all. We must know beyond any question
that we have in mind the same disease before we can talk of
cures.]

"We can't grow peaches here--too severe winters."  Prof.
J. Troop, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.,  Letter of Aug.
3, 1887.

"Mr. Minch is the only one I know who aserts [asserts] positively
he can or has cured trees of the yellow." E. Williams. Letter
of Sept. 1, 1887 Eli Minch, Shiloh, N. J.

G. S. LaFleur did not succeed in making many premature
pits grow.  From one planting he obtained a few sickly looking
shoots which only grew about ten inches and were pulled
and burned.  Next year he planted a peck--none grew. "August,
1882, I budded thirty-two sound stocks to bud taken from a
tree showing yellows in the fruit but not in the tree itself.
Eight of the buds started the following spring, 1883,  Four
started only perhaps one-half to one inch, and then failed to
        