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"In Sierra Leon the peach is reckoned one of the most
valuable of the fruits grown there; at the Cape it is abundant
and cheap. "--Our Common Fruits. By Mrs. Bayle Bernard,
London, 1866. p. 85  Frederick Warne & Co.

The Chinese grow peaches abundantly and have a muth in
ancient writings that there was a peach tree of Life which
bore only once in a thousand years and a peach treee of Knowledge
in some far off time, guarded on a mountain by a hundred
demons.-- Ibid. p. 87.

"There is no country in the world where they are grown in
such quantity as they are in the United States."-- Ibid. p.87.

"The peach tree was introduced into America by the early
settlers, somewhere about [It must have been earlier.] 1680,
and before long grew everywhere south of  48° latitude, literally
without cultivation."--Ibid. p. 88.

"In the older States [U.S.], however, within the last 
50 [70 now] years two great evils have appeared to obstruct
the former smooth course of the fruit grower,"--yellows and
borers.--Ibid. p.89.

"Far more fatal because less understood [than the borer] is
the 'yellows', a malady which affects the peach tree exclusively
[?], and seems also to be peculiar to America.&quot;--Ibid.--
p. 89.
        