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"I know little if anything of the 'yellows'." Edwin H.
Brown, Centreville, Md. Letter of July 13, '87.

"I would be very glad to have you here to-day to see a
few as fine peaches as you have seen this season, taken from
a tree on which there was one limb of premature fruit--that
ripened some three weeks ago or more.  The premature fruit
was of fair size and ripened with the early varieties. The 
tree is a late Crawford."  T. B. Coursey, Springwells near
Frederica, Del. Letter of Sept. 6, 1887.

"At the peach meeting of our local society here [Grand
Rapids] the other day one man reported several serious cases
[of peach yellows] in his orchard.  We have but one form of the disease in our
State and this is the virulent type. * * *

"We can control the disease perfectly among thrifty orchardists
because they will dig out every infected tree as soon as the
disease develops.  The malady is not now spreading in our 
State on this account."  Chas. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids,
Mich. Letter of Aug. 3, 1887.

"Peach trees will not live a single winter in Wisconsin."
W. A. Henry, Director of Wis. Exp. St., Madison, Letter of
Aug. 8, 1887.
        