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of quality has also taken place in some of our old and most
esteemed varieties.

The editors say:  "The subject is one coming home to
every grower of peaches for market.  The fact of the gradual
lessening and final disappearance of the intervals between
the ripening of kinds planted to succeed each other, is one
which has become apparent to all cultivators, and the evil has
been very seriously felt for years,--never perhaps having
occasioned so much inconvenience and loss as in the year
1872.  Then almost all differences of season appeared obliterated,
and varieties whose period of ripening extended over
at least three weeks time, seemed to come in together."
[They had yellows and did not know it!] Ibid. pp. 123-5. Title:
"Variation in the season of ripening of peaches, etc."
[J. S. Harris told me of Yellows in Kent Co. in 1869 or '70. See Note Book]
It was in his orchards, which were destroyied in part.

The Wilmington (Del.), Commercial, 1875, is authority
for the statement that the peach crop of 1875 was the largest
ever known and nearly as large as all the crops together
since 1870.  "The total shipments were 8,782,716 baskets."
The net returns are estimated at $1,618,944. or about 11¾ cts
per basket.  The Am. Farmer, Balt. 1875. p. 429.  It is not
clear whether this applies to Delaware or the Peninsula.
        