
          117

Compare Ibid. 1879, pp. 102, 358.

Ibid. 1880, p. 55, where it says: The Every Evening,
Wilmington, Del., sums up the peach crop for 1879 at 3,981,233
baskets at a net (for whole peninsula) of $1,500,000.

"At that time [1856] nearly the whole of the peach orchards
of New Jersey had been destroyed by a disease known as 
the yellows, which disease is now generally believed by peach
growers to have been caused by the Aphis,  the trees being
affected similarly [?] to the grape vine when infected by
them.  Fifty thousand acres planted in peach trees, in two
counties only of the State had been destroyed by the yellows
prior to 1850. This is fact, not fancy.  Mr. Isaac Pullen,
of Hightstown, N.J., who was an experienced nurseryman and
fruit grower, than whom no man in the State was better quallified,
by his intelligence and close observation, to speak ex 
cathedra on this matter, showed me in June, 1858, an orchard
that had been planted four years, and was then on its last
legs, with millions of Aphis upon the leaves, and billions
more, of identically the same insect, upon the roots. Of
        