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fruit, and the following year they put out a fine and abnormal
growth of young wood; dying during the third year.  The disease
is also reported as spreading from one tree to those adjacent.
This is so like "the Yellows" that we fear the unwelcome
scourge of the peach orchard has come to torment our
growers.

"It has hitherto been our boast that a genuine case of
the Yellows was unknown on this peninsula. Because of the
long exemption which peach trees have enjoyed from this disease,
it was hoped that there had been found a country where
either soil, or climate, or other conditions, were a barrier
to the worst enemy of the peach.

"Whether it is the Yellows or not, that is killing the trees
as reported, (we have not yet seen a genuine case of
Yellows in Delaware,) prompt measures can be taken that will
kill this disease.

"In our youth, we saw many trees taken in the early stages
of the Yellows, and wholly cured with hot water treatment. A
cavity was made in the earth surrounding the crown of the 
roots, and boiling hot water from the nozzle of a tea kettle was
poured against, and around, the trunk of the tree, about a
foot above the earth, until it ran down into the cavity about
        