Republican Herald

Fruit Trees.--A writer in the Long Island Star, speaking of the disease among Peach Trees, commonly called the Yellows, says that it was unknown forty years ago, and that he first discovered it on his farm in King's county, Long Island, in the year 1797, the year after two hundred Lombardy Poplars, the first that were introduced into the country, had been planted on an adjoining farm. He afterwards saw other Peach Trees affected by the same disorder, growing near some Lombardy Poplars, which were also planted about the year 1786. Some years afterwards, he was informed by an acquaintance who had been in Italy, that the people of Italy and the South of Europe, were cutting down their Poplars, from an idea that they destroyed fruit trees.