THE PEACH AND ITS DISEASES. 



IT is universally admitted that the Peach is 

 regarded as the most delicious, popular, and highly 

 esteemed of all the summer and fall fruits grown 

 within the limits of our temporate climate and par- 

 ticularly within the Middle States. It was intnr 

 duced by the early settlers of the country at different 

 places and at different periods, from 1650 to 16SO ? 

 taking rank with the apple and the small fruits 

 around the rustic habitations, adding its rich tribute 

 to the scanty luxuries of these heroic pioneers in 

 our American forests. Keeping pace with the suc- 

 cessive settlements of the country, by the hardy 

 adventurers of almost every nation, it became in- 

 dispensible to the garden and orchard these Edens 

 of their primitive homes. The tree grew in the 

 newly upturned virgin soil of the country in great 

 vigor and fruitfulness, from Massachusetts to the 

 extreme settlements in the South, giving the most 

 unmistakable evidence of its adaptability to the soil 

 and climateof its new location, reveling for the time 

 under the shelter and protection of the forests, and 



