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As long ago as 1848, J. W. Bisnel, of Rochester, N.Y., in
The Horticulturist, [Albany, N.Y: p. 34] said that there is a
loss of lime and potash in soils where many peach trees have
been grown and suggested that the yellows might be due "to the
absence or small quantity of these alkalies."  He say he
has never seen any analysis of the wood, but suggests that
such be made.

There seems to have been little or no yellows in Western
New York prior to 1848.  See article from which above is
taken, also <s>data</s>note in same Journal, 1846., p. 237.

Mr. James W. Thompson, of Wilmington, Del., whom A. J.
Downing calls "one of the most intelligent orchardists in the
country", in a letter first published in the Southern Planter
and afterwards in The Horticulturist, 1846, pp. 36 and 37,
says: "To Mr. Isaac Reeves, a native of New Jersey, is the
whole credit due of first introducing on a large scale, the
culture of the inoculated peach tree into Delaware.  The
late Mr. Jacob Ridgway, of Philadelphia, owning a farm near
Delaware City on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, was induced
by Mr. Reeves to become his partner; and upon this property
        