AND ITS DISEASE. 9 



which prevails in the Eastern, Western and North- 

 ern States, and see what the scientific detectives 

 have done and are now doing to discover the cause 

 of the great ravages he has made in the peach 

 orchard. 



In placing this enemy in the category of those 

 diseases which have been and continue to be so de- 

 liant to the advances of scientific investigation, let 

 us still apply a due portion of attention in this di- 

 rection in our comparison of the ravages of diseases 

 that are counterpart to this one in animal life; such 

 fjr example, as the pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, 

 trichina in pork, rot and scab in sheep, rabies in 

 that intolerable nuisance the dog, pleurisy and the 

 hundred diseases the horse is subject to, and all the 

 complicated ills of the human system where so 

 many malign causes are constantly at work, baffling 

 ages of professional research, and out of it all there 

 come to us only palliatives and seldom any specific 

 cures as a grand result in discovery. 



Our Pomological writers in succession for the last 

 half century, have gravely informed us that the 

 Peach tree is short-lived in the North a fact of 

 which we all have been fully aware under its treat- 

 ment with only a few exceptions against the pro- 

 verbial rule, and our memory fails to carry us back 

 to a different state of affairs. In the South however 

 we find the reverse; and such too was the case in 

 the North, for a century and more, after the intro- 

 duction of the Peach into this country, and even 



