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people here do not pay the close attention to fruit
and trees they do in the north, and hence it
is more difficult to obtain accurate information. 
* * * *
[Mr. H. [finds] Exoascus on plums. Says it is
also on peach and adds that ten trees
die from this to every one from the?
disease supposed to be yellows]

Yours very truly,
J. D. Husted.

Mixes his statements. Has some other disease
in mind.
?See later statement

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[see p. 341]

[Frederika, [Frederica] Del.]
4 - 30 - 1888

Mr. E. F. Smith,
State University
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dear Sir:-

Yours of the 20th came duly by mail. * *
As you suggest we have, ever since we
saw the effects of the first tree, dug and
burnt as soon as we could "without
mercy" every tree with this new phase of the
yellows; namely, willowy, wiry or fungus
growth whether in fruit or not.

Father's orchards I think were about 10,000
trees early in the thirties and remained so
until 1858 when he sold out to me.  I have now
a remnant of a Crawford Late orchard [which]
I set in the spring of 1859 still standing, and 
never saw a tree in it with the yellows until
late last season & then but slightly.  The
term "yellows" seems applied to all peach sickness
that causes abortion of its fruit, but the
present alarming phase of the yellows is
accompanied with an unnatural growth

        