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<s>most of her farmers have market orchards."-- No mention of
yellows,--Account of visit to Mr. Tighlman, Queen Anne Co.,
Md., The Am. Farmer, Balt., 1872. p. 247-8.</s>

On pp. 329-331, of The Am. Farmer, Balt., 1872 is an interesting account of a visit to
"A Maryland peach orchard" in Sept., 1872.  The orchard was [illegible]
that of the then largest grower in the world--Co. Edward Wilkins, 
of Riverside, [Chester River], Kent Co. Md.  At this time
the home farm had about 25,000 bearing trees, old orchard
of like number having been dug up last winter.  This orchard
with the bearing ones on his outlying farms brought the total
up to 120,000 trees.  He also had 6,000 trees which had not
fruited, and proposed to plant 25,000 more in spring of 1873.

On p. 330 the writer says: "Except the borer, the peach
seems to have few enemies in Maryland.  The 'yellows', the
scourge of New Jersey, is, so far, almost unknown in Maryland."
?[see p. 115]

From an editorial,-"In the peach country", in the October
number of The Am. Farmer, Balt., Md., 1874. p. 331, I quote:

"With the ills enumerated [early frost, etc.], we have 
to chronicle another, [The writer spent a day in Sept.., 1874
in and around Chestertown, Md.] which though not a new one, is
        