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from tlie country just round Camden and Burlington. As they failed 

 there, we found them in Monmouth county, then Middlesex ; soon 

 after, Mercer and Hunterdon counties, bordering the Delaware river, 

 were the peach counties ; now Ave find them in Somerset and Morris, 

 and next they will be in "Warren. The peach tree, since the disease 

 called the yellows has appeared, has no permanent abiding place, as 

 it formerly had. It is, in fact, a migratory crop. Last fall I spent 

 some days among the orchards in Morris county. A part of one 

 planted thirteen years ago was still bearing, although the oldest in 

 the neighborhood ; like some of the old trees in our gardens, it 

 seemed to have power to resist the yellows, while all round younger 

 orchards were failing, and I saw several, although bearing their first 

 crop, showed such unmistakable signs of disease that they would not 

 produce a second crop. Young peach trees grown near where 

 orchards have died of the yellows, are found to be short-lived. No 

 peach-grower understanding the business will plant successive orchards 

 on the same land, or even on the same farm. These men will buy 

 farms adapted to the business and plant them all over with peach 

 trees within a year or two. As those orchards fail they go to other 

 neighborhoods. People who did not believe in the yellows, or that a 

 neighborhood will not be tainted by a diseased orchard, have only to 

 ask the peach-growers of New Jersey. 



Mr. John Crane — Apples, pears and cherries also thrive in Morris, 

 Somerset and Hunterdon counties, as well as peaches. As to the lat- 

 ter fruit failing to grow upon land lying near that upon which one 

 orchard has died out, such has not been my experience. Nothing of 

 the kind ; on the contrary, quite the reverse. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — I don't believe what the doctor says about the 

 yellows, though ; I will engage to plant a peach tree on the same spot 

 where one has died or been cut down, and make it bear peaches, and 

 plenty of them. 



Mr. John Crane — There is no such disease as yellows. I have an 

 idea it is the excess of cold that injures the tree and causes this weak- 

 ness called yellows. I have raised thousands of bushels, and never 

 found any trouble in this way. Where there is iron in the soil, 

 peaches seem to thrive better. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn — There are localities which are more favorable to 

 some kinds of fruit than others. South Jersey is better for straw- 

 berries ; they grow better on a sandy loam ; not that they will not 

 grow as well on clay land, but the cultivation is more difficult and 

 weeds are more troublesome. Therefore, if strawberries are to be- 



