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would the diseases in our faithful animals depend- 

 ent upon us for support and protection, in return 

 for a short life of labor in our fields. Let us in this 

 strain turn to our Bibles, and learn again the price 

 of good fruit at the Creation, as fixed by the Deity 

 himself, and despair not. The injunction we there 

 find is, "dress the garden and keep it." Can any 

 one expect to obtain such a luxury as the Peach at 

 a less price ? In looking over that portion of the 

 district of Eastern Pennsylvania, extending from 

 the mountains to the Delaware river, we find but 

 few who have regarded this injunction, while all 

 others have rather followed the advice of Judge 

 Peters, " to plant a few trees every year," and we 

 have in this way kept up a kind of diseased perpet 

 uity in the few yellow skeletons which have or- 

 namented our habitations and surroundings for 

 almost the past century. Let every farmer who 

 has his own broad acres to cultivate, and every 

 house keeper who has his garden to till, no matter 

 how limited, read their own rebuke; not only in 

 their diseased and sickly trees, but in the crowded 

 markets of their own city, teeming in season with 

 this delicious product which their industry should 

 have supplied ; and take wisdom for the future. 

 We might here also awaken our languid interests 

 by reading the parable of the vineyard, wherein 

 idleness is called to industry, in the question, "Why 

 stand ye here all the day idle ?" It is quite evi- 

 dent that in Chester county, and it may be so in 



