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prevent it. In these pages will be found the 

 results of my experience, and the description 

 of successful manipulation of the peach orchard 

 to combat its diseases. 



If these instructions are followed out by our 

 farmers and fruit growers generally, the day is 

 not far distant when Eastern Pennsylvania will 

 supply the markets of Philadelphia and New 

 York with better peaches than now come from 

 the celebrated peach districts of Delaware and 

 Maryland. 



JOHN RUTTER. 



WEST CHESTER, March 1, 1880. 



