The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-07-28

from tree to tree, it is often propagated
through the bud and probably through the
pit. In the latter stages many of the seeds
fail to sprout, but III ghe earlier stages the
seeds will terminate and the stock thus
obtained will he tainted with the disease
Great care should be- exercised, therefore,
in growing and in purchasing nursery
stock, to avoid obtaining tainted trees.
There are some things that prevent ebso-
lutte certainty in deciding upon the health
fitness Of trees from which pits and buds
are obtained, since as already shown trees
may sometimes he diseased before any
symptoms are visible. II, however, trees
from which pits or buds have been obtain
ed for the propagation OF nursery stock
SHOW symptoms of tie yellows within
short time after the pits Or buds have been
taken from them the nursery stock thus
produced should be discarded without
hesitation.
Mary Efforts have bseA made to restore
trees that have become diseased with rhe
yellows, but SO far as known all such
efforts have been in vain. In some in
stances temporary relief seems tG have been
given the diseased trees by the application
of certain plant foods, shown in deeper
green in the foliage, but in no instance
known to the writer have the yellOws
symptoms disappeared, nor has the life Of
the tree been appreciably prolonged.
Again as the yellows often appears in
single branch of tree some growers have
tried to remove the disease by breaking off
the willowy shoots or even by cutting away
the whole branch or limb showing the yell
lows symptoms but such efforts have also
been useless since the disease sooner or
later appears in the rest of the tree. In
short no remedy for the peach yellows has
yet been made known. The only satsfac-
tory method by which an orchard may be
made free from this dangerous disease con-
sists in either grubbing out or cutting
down the affected trees, this should be
ture and the more closely the diseased trees
are pulled out the smaller will be the num-
Der Of trees destroyed by the yellows and
hence the longer the orchard will last In
removing diseased trees the most satisfac.
tory method consists in pulling out and
burning the affected trees root and branch
hos haa,, tho
to cut off the tops Of the diseased trees as
soon as the yellows appear and to pull the
stumps at more convenient season. This
latter method is satisfactory providing the
stumps are not neglected and allowed to
produce yellows shoots. In some instances
growers nave mistaken yellow foliage for q
symptom of tine yeliows. 1t must he re-
memhered however that a perfectly greea
trss may have the FELLOWS il It's first stages
while q yellow tree may be made yellow
because Of some other disease, by starga-
ton or by the action Of some insect Trees
affected by these troubles may almost al
ways be cured il treated in time. and whgn
the trees have been restored by proper
treatment the remedies used have been
mistaken, by some, for cures for the yell
lows. Great progress has been made dur.
ing the past two years in freeing our state
from the yelioWs, and i: every grower con-
tMues to do his duty the time is not far
distant when the number OF yellow trees
will be reduced to a minimum. In con-
clusion it should be remembered that an
orchard is not safe as long as it contains a
single yellow tree, and this is the best
season to detect the disease in it's early
stages, since the premature fruit is now
appearing. All such trees should Re dis.
tinctly marked so that they can he destroy
ed at an early date, providing time does
not admit Of their immediate removal.
As soon as the premature peaches are
removed the tree often shows no further
sign of the yellows until the following sea-
son and in the meantime the disease is
spreading, il the tree is allowed to remain
Hence no pains should be spared to remove
every affected tree as soon as the yeilows
appear.