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No worms or diseases assail them. x x There are orchards of
fifty <s>or</s> and seventy acres; and some larger in Accomac and other
parts of this isthmus between the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware
farther south. x x' "  Mr. Peters adds: "Compare this
account with the actual state of the peach in our country.
[around Philadelphia] and judge whether we live in a region
favorable to its growth.  Mr. Heston's attempt at cultivating
this trees [tree], in the southern manner, begins already to
fail.  His trees are evidently infected; and many are on the 
decline.  The yellows are universally prevalent this season
throughout the whole country [(i.e. about Phila.)] (Ibid pp. 189-190,
and 191.[)]

7.  In a letter to Mr. Peters under <s>date</s> superscription of "Bellevue
(near Wilmington, Del.,), Nov. 6, 1807." pp. 192-197. Dr.
James Tilton says:--

"A fine early peach, which ripened in Northampton, Va.,
so early as June, did not ripen on my farm, before the last
of August and first of September" [Was it a premature at Northampton?]
x x "The diseases and early death of our peach
trees is a fertile sources of observation, far from being exhausted."
Dr. Tilton thinks all the peach diseases are
caused by insects.  He says: "even that sickly appearance of
        