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single seedling peach tree in my lot at home which has stood in
the <s>soil</s> sod for many years and sometimes <s>bore</s> bears a small white peach.
I tried to inoculate this tree with the yellows several years ago
but failed to accomplish it. In the month of June I pulled off a
large piece of bark and applied in its place the bark freshly taken
from a tree badly diseased and bound it on, but it never phased
it.  The tree kept on living the same, year after year, and is out
there yet I guess though I haven't noticed lately.

I do not think that the loss from yellows amounts to more than
say 5% a year, generally much less than that, frequently not above
1% of the trees in the orchard; trees are lost from other causes.

5.  I think they have the yellows in Cal.*  I have never been 
there so do not know from my own observation but I have relatives
engaged in raising fruit in the vicinity of Los Angeles and they 
tell me that the disease exists there.

Respectfully etc.

C. D. Lawton.

* "I think it was Mr. Irving White, Sierra
Madre, Los Angeles, Co., Cal., who told me that
the peach yellows existed in Cal." C. D. Lawton
Postal of May 25, 1888.  See p. 375.
        