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little attention they would in the more Northern States of 
America.  It is a fruit that is no [not] natural to the country of
these States, that they are applied as food to hogs., also in
<s>in</s> making brandy, and for culinary purposes. They are in succession,
one sort coming after another, from July to November.
In some States kilns are erected for drying and curing apples,
pears, peaches and other fruits in great quantity." - p. 129.

"It is a common fault, after having planted out an orchard
of peach trees, to leave the trees to shift for themselves."--Ibid. p. 130.

"It [the peach] is, when in perfection, the finest fruit
of our country for beauty and flavour: it is deeply to be
regretted that is duration is so short, and that it is subject
to a malady which no remedy can cure, nor cultivation
avert [He seems to refer to the yellows].  Of the numberless
modes of mitigating or preventing the diseases of the peach
tree, with which our publick prints are daily teaming, none
have yet been found effectual.--the ravages of the worm, which
destroys the roots and trunk of this tree, may be sometimes

        