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chestnuts, peaches, damsons, cypresses, mulberry, fish trees, and
many other rare trees." Ib. p. 47.

[New Sweden extended on both sides of Del. bay and River to
above Phila.]

"There is a great variety of trees in this country of which
the following are the principal:- filbert, chestnut, walnut, box,
mulberry, cypress, mucated vine, apple, pear, cherry, plum, damson,
and the fine sweet smelling sassafras; there are also peach trees
etc." Ib. p. 40.  [Campanius appears to have been an honest but
credulous man.  See Snake story.]

A note in Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, 1st. Series Vol XI. 1826,
quoted from N. Y. Evening Post says "the cause of the decay in our
peach trees" is the borer and describes it habit.

"As the delicious fruit of this tree [peach] has become of late
years very scarce in some of the Eastern states, by means of the
peach tree decaying and finally dying; and as I have for some years
in New Jersey and this state [Ohio] been anxious to find out the
cause; and having ascertained to my satisfaction that it was not
owing to a worm at the root as some have affirmed. - I have etc."
From the Cincinnati Gazette. Quoted in Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore,
Md. June 15, 1816.

Mr. James Wood, the writer of the letter, dated May 16, 1816,
        