
          168

about the year 1629.  The stones were ordered by the 'Governor
and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England' in
that year. [But not then sent,- only promised]

"Both the peach and nectarine, as well as apricots, are
mentioned by Beverly, as growing abundantly in Virginia in
1720.  Some of the former [fruits] are represented to have
been twelve or thirteen inches in circumference.  They were
raised so easily that some cultivators planted orchards of
them purposely for feeding hogs. x x x

"Peach trees x x x are mentioned by Colden as having
been killed by frost, in the province of New York, in 1737, x x

"The peach was introduced into Louisiana by the Spanards[?] [see p. 240]
prior to its settlement by the French, where it has since
grown spontaneously, and in many respects apparently indigenous.

"This tree was introduced at Easton, Talbot, Co., Md., by 
George Robbins, in about 1735.  The stones were received by
[from] Peter Collinson, of England, together with the seeds
of that year." p. 225.

"In the more southern climates it [the peach] frequently
attains the age of thirty of forty years--and is never attacked
by the disease called the yellows." Ibid. p. 229.
        