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exceed ten inches.  They had the appearance of unhealthy
trees.  I pulled them and burned.  The next season I obtained 
a peck of pits selected with care from fruit showing
yellows plainly.  These I placed in sand in the fall, in the
same manner as I treated healthy pits.  In the spring I
cracked them myself and examined them, finding only one that
was in normal condition.  All others had turned a black or
dark color and mostly decayed.  The one pit that had the 
appearance of being sound was planted but never came up.
The following August (1882) I budded thirty-two sound stocks
to buds taken from a tree showing yellows in the fruit but
not in the tree itself.  Eight of the buds started the following
spring of 1883; four only started one-half to one inch
and then failed to grow and soon died.  One budd grew three
inches, one a little over four inches; two buds grew eight
and ten inches high, all turning yellow and looking sickly,
in August of the same year, I pulled up the trees and burned
them.  After doing this it occurred to me that the stocks
should have been left in the ground to grow, to test the
question as to whether yellows could be communicated to healthy
stocks by inserting diseased buds.  I hope that ou will test
thoroughly this last point, as that is of great importance to
        