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from those that result from the superannuation of the race.
In the latter case the decay is gradual; the tree (the whole
tree) is sickly, feeble, and unthrifty; the fruit if it bear
any, is scanty and stunted [ ? stinted ], ripens in due time, and takes its
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"In case of the 'yellow's the attack of disease is sudden,
upon the most healthy, vigorous and thrifty trees, afftecting
at its commencement, but a single limb; the fruit is
in great abundance, and often of full growth, ripens three or
four weeks too soon, and assumes an unnatural hue.  Consumption
and yellow fever in the human body are not so dissimilar
as superannuation and 'yellows' in peach trees."

3.  "Improper or defective cultivation is assigned as a
cause of the 'yellows'."

Objections -- like causes produce like effects "The disease
makes its attack without any regard to the care <s>and</s> or skill
of the cultivator; it makes no discrimination between the best and worst treatment."

4.  "Some believe the 'yellows' to be the effect of injury
done by the peach worm (<s>Aegiora</s> Aegeria exitiosa [exitosa])."

Objections.--"The known visible injury which the worm
does to the tree, is the devouring of the inner bark around
the trunk at or just under the surface of the ground.  The
        