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without killing it.  Says in every instance he found the 
pith of such trees was black-dotted or black. p. 365.

In 1829, a committee of six persons, was appointed by
the New York Horticultural Society to visit gardens in the
vicinity and "to lay before the Society an account of the
general state of our Horticultural improvements."  On the peach
this committee reported as follows:

"Our cultivation of the peach is also succeeding ina 
degree approaching at the prosperity of former years, and
our markets, during the past season, have been supplied with
great quantities of this delicious fruit, at from one to
three dollars per bushel." p. 75, of New York Farmer and
Horticultural Repository, Vol. 3, New York. 1830.

Milford Delaware Chronicle, Oct. 1883, "Yellows in the Peach," by W. P. Corsa <s>(?)</s>. [is name signed]
"In a number of our peninsular exchanges we have seen
accounts of a disease affecting the peach trees of their localities,
that from its description, we judge is rightly
called "the yellows".  The trees are reported to show the
first appearance of the disease by prematurely ripening their
        