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"On the Union Farms near Wilmington owned we understand by
Dr. Thomson of that place and Mr. M. Eayre of this city, we learn
that about 100 acres immediately on the river Delaware are now 
flourishing in peach trees, and that about one-half will bear this
year, and that by a late arrangement our esteemed fellow citizen
I. Reeves, for whom peaches will always grow, has become a partner
with these gentlemen in their large concern.  Philip Reybold Esq.,
the efficient President of the Del. Ag. Soc., has also, we understand,
set out this Spring a large orchard. * * * * *

Some of the fine peach districts of Jersey, seem of late 
years, [prior to 1838] to have lost their power of producing and
continuing long-lived the tree that produces this best, in its
season, of all fruits.  We should like to hear from some of our
Jersey subscribers, if they can give us the reason, why it is so-
and if any clue has yet been found into that most insidious and
fatal, disease to the peach tree, the yellows."  Quoted from Farmers'
Cabinet in Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Va, Aug. 1838, p. 261,

"The easy culture and rareness of disease in the peach tree
in Western N.Y.",-- J. J. Thomas in Genesee Farmer.  Quoted
p. 261, of Farmers Register, Petersburg, Va., 1839.

Yellows "commenced its ravages in Penn. and N.J. about the
year 1797.  Peach trees were cultivated near Philadelphia for more
than a centurry before and such diseases <s>appaears</s> appear to have been
        