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dirties the fruit that it becomes nearly useless, 
especially if the bush is infested when the fruit is 
ripe. This appeared to have been the case in the 
year 1825, and that many hundreds of pecks 
were never gathered from the trees, and also 
many hundreds of pecks did not fetch in price 
more than lialf the value to the market gardener, 
in compai’ison to those gathered from the trees 
not thus infested. 
This is the very cause which raises the 
opinion of so many people, that it is produced 
by the smoke of Leeds and its vicinity j and 
some of its inhabitants are so prejudiced to the 
neighbouring produce, that if fruit thus affected 
w'ere brought from some gentlemen’s gardens 
at the distance of twenty miles, the blame 
would be immediately attached to the Leeds 
smoke. Certainly we must not say that in the 
neighbourhood of so much smoke vegetation 
will be quite so clear and pure as, at a greater 
distance, but the difference is not so much as 
may be supposed, for the frequent rains and 
dews tend to cleanse it : and I may venture to 
say, that fruits and vegetables lU’e produced, with- 
in the distance of two miles from Leeds, that are 
little inferior to those raised in any other part of 
Yorkshire ; I mean where the same attention is 
paid to its culture. The year 1826, in May, 
nothing less than destruction to the crops, and 
great injury to the bush, were advancing by this 
formidable enemy, but Providence so ordered that 
