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cranberries, hurtleberries and grapes of diverse
sorts. x x Here are also peaches, and very good and in great
quantities, and Indian plantation without them; but whether
naturally here at first I know not.  However, one may have
them by bushels for very little; they make a pleasant drink,
and, I think not inferior to any peach in England, except
the true <s>Newtington</s>Newington."  Mr. Meehan says in a note on this
that there is a letter in existence written a year before by
a Jersey man, Mahlon Stacy, which says: "We have peaches by
the cart load."

Long paper on Yellows by W. K. Higley in American Naturalist,
1881.

"it is many years since the writer of this paragraph demonstrated
that in the early stages of the disease the roots
of the peach tree are covered by the mycelium of a species of
Agaricus. x x That this fungus, by feeding on the roots, is
certainly connected with the disease, he proved by taking
spades' full of earth, and placing them aroung healthy
trees, when the 'yellows' resulted.  Other trees also received
the fungus and yellows followed, especially the
        