
          114

Ibid. p. 213 is an account of a black "bug" which is
ravaging the tops of J. W. Kerr's young peach trees.  Mr. Kerr
thinks the greater portion of his 83,000 young trees will be
"entirely destroyed".  It was probably aphis.  Mr. Kerr afterwards
told me that it was the black peach aphis. They swept his
nursery clean that year.

Ibid. p. 179.  Sassafras Neck is said to be [1874] the
great peach growing portion of Cecil Co., Md.

Consult files of Cecil Whig and Cecil Democrat, Cecil
Co., Md., after 1874, for reference to yellows.

Middletown, Del., shipped by car peaches in:
1872, - - - - 450,000 baskets.
1873, - - - - 300,000 baskets.

W. F. Goodwin, Newcastle Co., Del., Ibid. p. 179. says
there were no peaches in the extreme upper part of peninsula
in 1873.

March 4, 1874, Edward Wilkins, of Riverside, Md., writes
on change in time of ripening of varieties of peaches so that
they ripen<s>ed</s> at the same time.  Says <s>also</s> he thinks a change
        