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Vinyard, Spalding Co., Ga.,
[Co. is 30 miles So. of Atlanta]

Sept. 26, 1887.

Erwin F. Smith,

Dover, Del.,

Dear Sir: Your letter of inquiry received on Saturday.
I have noticed only occasionally in the peach orchards
in the country and occurring more ofter in the gardens
and yards of the city of Griffin.  Scattering trees (not
often more than one or two trees) affecgted with a disease
resembling the yellows.  The whole tree usually assumes a
sickly appearance, the leaves are very small and slender with
a yellow death-like look.  Late in the season or second
season fo attack the tree ceases to make terminal growth and
a bunch or rosette of leaves forms on the tips of limbs making
the tree conspicuous at a distance.  Trees thus attacked are
sure to die the second or third year.  The symptoms differ
from the yellows as known in Michigan.  So far as I can learn
it is not infectious, as single trees are often suffered to
stand in the orchard until they die (which they are certain to
do), and the nearest trees remain healthy.  The small wiry
shoots do not appear on the main branches as they do in the
North, and I believe (though not quite sure) the diseased trees
are barren of fruit from their first attack.
[Ask his to make full observations and report in 1888.]
        