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[Vineyard, Georgia]
8 May, 1888.

Mr. Erwin Smith
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Dear Sir:- Your letter was received
and I will comply with your requests
as far as I can.  Have mailed you limbs
also spurs from the larger limbs of the diseased
[peach] tree. This peach tree is growing in an
orchard of five year old trees, and all of [these]
of very strong growth.  The tops nearly meet while
the trees are 20 ft. apart each way.  It showed
slight symptoms of the disease the latter part of 
last summer, and is now a fairly developed
specimen of a tree with this disease; but
later on the branches will have formed large
rosettes of leaves.  I notice also a tendency to
form tufts of leaves along the larger branches
(a few of which I send you) instead of the
small wiry shoots as is seen in the north.
This tree is standing opposite of where one
was dug up last year, having the Southern
form of yellows and only two trees (or 40 ft.
distant) from the tree now attacked, the
twigs of which I send you. [see photograph of
specimens.  I think it is yellows!]

At the regular meeting of the Middle Georgia
Hort. Society I read your letter yesterday and
among many fruit growers present there
was none who had seen trees with this disease
bearing any fruit, but some of them were
of the opinion that the disese was contagious as
where one tree was affected others would commonly
be found with the disease: I have set out
young trees in the places where diseased trees had
been removed and will watch the result. The

        