Yellows In The Peach Tree

The GarJener's Monthly says there is no mytftery whatever as to the cause of the " yullows" iu the peach tree: If you dig arouud a tree with the yellows you wiü first be struck with a " mushrooruy" sniell. Picking out the roots, and examining them with a len, you will see luiüions of thread-like fibers,' which are the mycelia of fungi. These eat the young fibres, and leave only the inain roots, through which all tho nutri ment of the plaut has to be gathered ; and as the old root is unable to do niuch more than draw in water, the tree becoiues iu a measure starved, and the leaves becoine yellow, just as they would be growiug in poor soil, which, though the plant oiight have plenty of roots, furnished notbing lor the roots to eat. To have plenty ot roots and no food, is iquivalent to havihg plenty of food and 110 mots. Tho r medies wbich look to tUo de.sti uction ot tuis root pitrusite are üiiipliiyt'd. Hut water has clone it ; so hts a weak suiutiori of salt; others have found a weak solution of potash to suoceed.