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high cultivation are fatal to peach trees," because of yellows.

J. H. Sanborn in C. & C. Gent. 1867, p. 366, says peaches do well
in Fla. and are not subject to yellows, borer, or curculio.  Some
owned by Geo. Stone, opposite Jacksonville, are "over 20 years old
and I can see from my house over a dozen trees on Dr. Perley's
place that are 24 years old, and bore from one to three bushels
each, this past July [1867]".

"In five days- Sept. 12-17 [1869] 107,028 baskets of peaches
were shipped from Benton Harbor, Mich., by propeller to Chicago and
Milwaukee in addition to which large qu.[quantities] were sent by schooners no
acct. of which was kept." C. & C. G., 1869, p. 275.

"The peach trees cultivated in orchards here  [central Del.
1873] usually live from 20 to 25 years and have been known to live
40 and even 50; while in N.J. where peaches are cultivated extensively
for sale, orchards planted live only from 7 to 10 years."
Alex. Pullen, chairman of Com. on Peaches, in Report before Cent.
Del. Fr. Grower's Asso. Jan. meeting, 1873, p. 77.  The Md. Farmer,
1873.

"That most insidious and fatal disease of the peach tree the
yellows," p. 297 - The Farmer's Cabinet, Phila., 1838.

Lice were injurious to peach trees at Woodbury N.J. [near Philadelphia] in 1837.
Ib., p. 54.

"The worm and the 'yellows' are two great contemporaneous evils
which probably have no necessary connection with each other.-
        