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healthy trees."  He also thinks it is contagious.

Objections.--"An experiment which I made last spring has not
confirmed this statement. I inoculated a healthy young tree
with a bud from a diseased one; the bud perished, and the 
stock continued healthy.  I also applied a blossom, fresh
from a diseased tree, to the blossom (it had but one) of a
young tree in my garden, which has hot yet shown any marks of
<s>the</s> disease.  I will state another fact.  In the spring of
1829 I received two trees of the yellow nutmeg from Prince's
Nursery.  I suppose from their appearance, that the inoculations
were entirely the growth of the preceeding year.  If
they were, they could not have blossomed till transferred to
my orchard.  The growth of the trees had been remarkably
vigorous, and nothing in their appearance indicated disease.
Coming from a warmer climate they blossomed a week before any
trees in my neighborhood, the blossoms had all fallen off
before those in the vicinity had expanded.  Nevertheless,
both trees died of the 'yellows' before the month of September
folowing [following].  Another fact; last spring I had occasion to head
down a young tree, very thrifty, but not of a sort that I
approved.  I left only one small twig, about six inches long, 
on which there wre no blossom buds.  In the course of the
        