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prevented, and with care may be at all times rendered less
destructive, but the malady which destroys much the larger
portion of the trees, has hitherto baffled every effort to
subdue it; neither its sources, or the precise character of
the disease appear to be perfectly understood; in one of the
consequences of this disease every cultivator of the tree
will agree, that it cannot be cultivated with success on the
site of a former plantation, until some years, and an intermediate
course of cultivation have intervened: in a nursery
established on ground previously occupied by peach trees, the
stones may possibly sprout, but in a few weeks they will assume
a languishing appearance, the leaves will turn yellow,
they will dwindle, and the greater part will perish the first
season.

"If trees are brought from a sound nursery and planted on
the site of an old peach orchard, or in a garden previously
occupied by them, or among old trees, the young plantation
will share the same fate with the nursery plants, it will
seldom suvive the first season, and will never be vigorous
or thrifty.

"The fine peaches which are raised for the Philadelphia
market, are cultivated in the following manner." [Here follows

        