10 THE PEACH 



-now in healthy districts it grows to an old age, re- 

 gaining its thriftiness for fifty and a hundred years, 

 thus virtually giving it the character of a longlived 

 tree. These facts alone fully demonstrate that the 

 cause producing the change to a dwarfed size and 

 short life, has not arisen from any want of adapta- 

 bility in soil and climate, but is occasioned by dis- 

 ease to which we shall presently more fully refer. 

 In order to reach our present object which is to 

 show that peaches in Pennsylvania and in t-he 

 Middle States can be grown in orchard culture, as a 

 branch of farm industry with greater success and 

 to more profit to the producer, than they are now 

 raised in Maryland and Delaware, or indeed in any 

 of the peach districts farther South under a system 

 of proper culture,! may here say this has been done 

 for years and fairly tested with the same careful 

 culture as in the peach districts of Southern Mary- 

 land. In showing this state of facts we will first 

 present the early records reaching back to the first 

 appearance of the fatal disease, in as brief a manner 

 as possible to be intelligent. To do this, we must 

 trace its progress and the course of examinations 

 which have been made looking to the cause and the 

 results obtained therefrom. 



It is said that this disease the yellows made 

 its first appearance in the neighborhood of Phila- 

 delphia. As to the truth of this declaration, the 

 evidence is not at all clear. The first public notice 

 on the subject we find in a communication made by 



