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Chas. H. Snow, in Garden (London) 1877 writing on "Peach
Culture in  Maryland and Delaware", says that the baskets contain
one-half bushel each; that the peninsula is 180 miles
long by tewnty [twenty] to fifty broad; that no farm is over ten miles
from navigable water; that the shipment of peaches in 1875 
(official_ was 8,000,000 <s>(s)</s> <s>bushels</s> baskets; that farms having 100,
200, and 300 acres in peaches are common; that the principal
drawbacks to cultivation are late spring frosts and sleat [sleet] in
time of blossom, and borers. No mention is made of  "yellows".

Fred. [Ferd.] Bu<s>n</s>r?ion [Burian], in Wiener Illustrirtes [Illustrirte] Carten [Garten-Zeitung]. 1882, p. 194,
complains of injury done to peach trees by aphides and says
he thinks ants carry them from tree to tree.

Paper on Peaches  by Wm. Parry, of N.J., in "Proceedings of
Pa. Fruit Growers' Society, 1871."

Ask [As] for shipment of peaches on Del. Wilmington & Balt. R.R.
and branches for series of years.  This was for:--
1869 - 2,087,987 baskets.
1876 - 1,410,679 baskets.
1871 - 2,649,173 baskets.
1872 - 3,500,000 (nearly) baskets.
        