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extending through the tissue, and destroying it as it goes.
This seems likely from some experiments of the Department of
Agriculture. [Thomas Taylor's] At any rate it is generally believed that a
bud, or even a knife used in pruning a diseased tree, will
communicate the disease to a healthy one.'

"The remedies suggested may be considered heroic ones,
and by some it may be feared that hot water will kill the 
tree.  But in the spirit of the German who was not certain
if a man made a hog of himself that lager would not intoxicate
though he had taken a hundred glasses a day without being
drunk, so we say of hot water on the peach tree; it may be
possible to kill the peach tree by flooding it, but we have
generally used a half gallon of boiling water to a tree four
inches in diameter, and have yet to see the first tree killed
by it; and yet to see the first one so treated that was not
benifited by the treatment.

"It may impossible for a man having a hundred acres in
peaches, to treat his whole orchard to a hot water bath; but
the yellows seldom attack a whole orchard at once; so if our
growers will keep a sharp watch for the first appearance of 
the disease and stop the trouble there, they will find the
task a less difficult one than they may now imagine.  When
few trees have been thus found and 'doctored', it is good
        