AND ITS DISEASE. 7 



country and especially in Pennsylvania, that it 

 would be but a repetition of what we aiready know 

 to go into any detail of its history, other than in 

 connection with the injuries and diseases to which 

 it is subject, and particularly as affecting us here 

 in Pennsylvania, within reach of the markets of 

 Philadelphia and New York. In this connection I 

 use the words INJURIES and DISEASES, as it is gen* 

 erally believed that the paach tree is specially sub" 

 ject to injuries and diseases over and above all other 

 varieties of fruit trees common to our gardens and 

 orchards. In removing this delusion I am pleased 

 to be able to say that from my experience in the 

 cultivation of this fruit in Pennsylvania, Delaware 

 and Maryland, which has been quite extensive, and 

 from my personal observations over a region ex- 

 tending from New York to Florida which obser- 

 vations have neither been casual nor limited in all 

 this range of a varied soil and climate I have seen 

 and learned of but one disease destructive to the 

 tree, and that is the specific disease termed the 

 "yellows," and one as fatal to the Peach as yellow 

 fever is to the human race, calling for a specific 

 remedy or preventative to arrest its progress. All 

 other causes affecting the peach tree are but slightly 

 injurious and of but little account, and are found 

 prevailing as well in what is considered the healthy 

 peach districts in Southern Maryland, and further 

 south, where the tree now stands in thrifty growth 

 and productiveness, having attained a size of from 



