The Fartn and Garden says: "We would ask the Gardeners' Monthly, if its root-fungus theory be true, how it is, that if the tops of so many peach trees that have the yellows, are cut away two feet or so from the trunk, that a new and healthy top will form ? We would also ask why, in the case of the yellows, a healthy shoot will grow from the body of the tree if the roots are diseased. The fact is well known, that if the roots of a tree are diseased, the entire tree suffers at once, and its vitality is destroyed, and pruning hastens the decay".

We never knew of a case of genuine yellows in which the whole tree was not more or less affected.