
          130

"The largest [peach tree] we have seen noticed is one in
Southern New Jersey mentioned in the agricultural report of
Cumberland Co.  It has a trunk eight [!] feet in circumference,
two feet above the ground, or thirty inches in diameter.  It
is stated that there has been sold from this tree $38. worth 
of fruit in one year."--Age is not stated. C. & C. Gent.
1886. Aug. p. 588. the Editor says: "We have seen trees
in old Indian orchards in Western New York which measured a 
foot in diameter."

Plums on peach stock seem to have done well for Josiah
Hoopes, West Chester, Pa.  C. & C. Gent. 1886. p. 148.

According to the Pacific Rural Press the estimated number
of peach trees in California is 1,200.000; apricots,
500,000.

[Use the profit in Maryland and Delaware as an argument
that peaches are suited to that region.]

[What data as to peaches suffering from yellows when on
plum stocks? bud some hundred; set in a badly infected region;
and watch results. Plums on their own roots must be
set for comparison.]
        