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Peaches in Delaware in 1879. Great shipments around
Lebanon, Del.,-54,060 baskets five-eights [eighths] bushel were shipped
in three days, requiring 103 cars. Mr. Hanson received over
$3,000 at sixty cents per basket for one week's  delivery to a
cannery,--week ending Aug. 23.  He will have from fifteen to
twenty thousand baskets from less than ninety acres. Ibid.
p. 569.

"It [budding peaches on plum stock<s>s</s>] is no protection
against yellows."  Ed. C. & C. Gent. 1879. p. 136.

Plum is reported to do well on peach stock in California,
in South Pennsylvania, and the Middle States farther south, but
with the exception of a few sorts it fails at the north.
C. & C. Gent. 1878. p. 694

[The importance of having a regular succession of peaches
is very great.  Yellows prevents this.]

"We have here [Centralia, Ill., 1870] a stretch of country,
say eighty miles in extent east and west and thirty or
        