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the precise character of the disease, appear to be per- 

 fectly understood ; in one of the consequences of this 

 disease every cultivator of the tree will agree, that it 

 cannot be cultivated with success on the site of a for- 

 mer plantation, until some years, and an intermediate 

 course of cultivation have intervened : in a nursery es- 

 tablished on ground previously occupied by peach 

 trees, the stones may possibly sprout, but in a few 

 weeks they will assume a languishing appearance, the 

 leaves will turn yellow, they will dwindle, and the 

 greater part will perish the first season. 



If trees are brought from a sound nursery and plan- 

 ted on the site of an old peach orchard, or in a garden 

 previously occupied by them, or among old trees, the 

 young plantation will share the same fate with the 

 nursery plants, it will seldom survive the first season, 

 and will never be vigorous or thrifty. 



The fine peaches which are raised for the Phila- 

 delphia market, are cultivated in the following man- 

 ner. The trees are procured from nurseries establish- 

 ed on fresh ground ; they are planted on land not pre- 

 viously occupied by the cultivation of the Peach tree ; 

 the land is cultivated with manured crops of corn, po- 

 tatoes, vines, or pulse, without intermission : the trees 

 are carefully searched for the worm, in the spring, 

 summer and autumn. Fresh cow-dung is an excel- 



