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direction it that part of America."--The Companion for the
Orchard. By Henry Phillips, New Ed. London 1811, p. 278.

Phillips thinks on this authority that the peach must
be indigenous to Louisiana as well as Persia.

Gerard describes a number of sorts of peaches in 1597
and says: "I have them all in my garden with many other sorts."

Phillips thinks the peach was brought into England "as
early as the reign of Henry VIII." probably in 1524, by Wolf,
the king's gardener.  The apricot was brought <s>was brought</s> by
this man at this date.

Columella mentions  peaches as grown in Gaul.
Pliny also speaks of peaches which came from France and 
Asia.

A writer in The Garden (London) 1881. p. 529, in an illustrated
article on peach aphis (Aphis amygdali) says three
speies occur on the peach, all have the same habits. This is
the worst one.  He says all three have been named Aphis Persicae
by various authors, but are now put into different
genera.  Says nothing about finding them on roots.
        