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now trees from one to thirty-six years old, all from the same
stump."

Nicholas Collin, Rector of the Swede's Church at Philadelphia
read before the Am. Philosophical Society, Jan 19, 1816, a paper
entitled- "Observations made at an early Period on the Climate
and Country about the river Delaware, collected from the records
of the Swedish Colony by Nicholas Collin" in which he says:-

"He [Campanius] mentions peach trees as growing, [1643 - 1648]
among others, in several places.  It is very improbable that they
had been planted by Europeans.  The remarkable abundance and variety
of this valuable tree, before their decay for the last 30 or
more years [prior to 1816] proved their congeniality with the climate."

Thos. Campanius spent 5 years in the vicinity of Delaware
river 1643 to 1648, as a missionary among the Delaware indians,
and published at Stockholm in Swedish in 1702 in 4to: "A short
account of New Sweden" a copy of which (Swedish) was in the public
library of Phild [Philadelphia], in 1816.  The first important settlement was
about the place where Wilmington now stands" early as 1638 or
before.

Cf: paper on "Yellows" Mich. Pomological Rep. 1878. p.256.

W. K. <s>Highleby</s> Higley Am. Nat., 1881, p. 857, says Yellows appeared
        