34 THE PEACH 



riety, and as a protection from the yellows, in tak- 

 ing buds from known healthy trees. The usual 

 course among nurserymen is to cut their buds for 

 inoculation from the nursery rows of the previous 

 year's growth. As an introduction to another field 

 of operation in peach culture, in a different soil and 

 in a different climate, embracing a portion of the 

 healthy peach districts of the State of Maryland, I 

 may say that the Delaware railroad, connecting 

 north with the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal- 

 timore railroad, a mile or two south of Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware, with lateral branches, known to bo- 

 the great avenues of trade and travel through al- 

 most the entire length and breadth of the penin- 

 sula, embraces the great peach regions of Dela- 

 ware and Maryland. This road terminated, until 

 after the close of the war, at Salisbury, Delaware,, 

 and at that time the peach and fruit district did not 

 extend in that direction many miles below this 

 point, for the want of facilities of transportation to 

 the northern markets. 



In 1864-5 the attention of our northern people 

 began to be drawn in that direction, and particu- 

 larly in and around the peach growing centres, 

 some dropping below the terminus, in the direction 

 of the proposed extended route of the railroad r 

 where a pleasant, equable and healthy climate pre- 

 vailed, having on the one side the Atlantic ocean, 

 and on the other the Chesapeake Bay, equal of it- 

 self to an inland sea. The country is in every way 



