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PEACHES. 
The preferable soil for a Peach orchard is a rich sandy 
loam, but this fruit will succeed in any soil with proper at-- 
tention to cultivation and manuring; particular care, how- 
ever, should be taken not to plant a new orchard on the site 
ef an old one. It may be necessary also to remark, that the 
ground where they are planted should be kept in a constant 
state of cultivation, as they become bark-bound and unthrifty 
the second year after the grass has formed a sod around 
them. There are two causes which have operated against 
the success of this tree, and which seem peculiar to it—the 
one is a worm which attacks the tree at the root, near the 
surface of the ground, and often totally encircles it; the 
other is a disease usually denominated the Yedloze. 
Zhe Worm.—The most proper course to obviate the de- 
predations of the worm, is to examine the trees every spring 
and autumn, and to make an application of a mixture of 
fresh cow dung and clay to the wounds which have been 
made by them. Lime or ashes thrown around the roots of 
Peach Trees are found to prevent, in a great measure, the 
depredations of the worm. , 
Yellows.—This disease, which commenced its ravages in 
New-Jersey and Pennsylvania about the year 1797, and in 
New-York in 1801, and has spread thrgugh several of the 
states, is by far more destructive to Peach Trees than the 
worm, and is evidently contagious. This disease is spread at 
the time when the trees are in bloom, and is disseminated by 
the pollen or farina blowing from the flowers of diseased 
trees, and impregnating the flowers of those which are 
healthy, and which is quickly circulated by the sap through 
the branches, foliage, and fruit, causing the fruit, wherever 
the infection extends, to ripen prematurely. That this dis- 
ease is entirely distinct from the worm, is sufficiently proved 
by the circumstance, that Peach Trees which have been in- 
oculated on Plum or Almond stocks, though seldom affected 
by the worm, are equally subject to the yed/ows—and a deci- 
sive proof of its being contagious is, that a healthy tree, in- 
oculated from a branch of a diseased one, instead of being re- 
stored to vigour and health,immediately beeomesitself infected 
with the disease. As all efforts totally to subdue it must re- 
quire a long course of time, the best method to pursue to- 
7—wards its eventual eradication, is to stop its progress, and 
prevent its farther extension—to accomplish which, the fol- 
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