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"Peaches are a profitable article of culture in the
country through which we have travelled. x x The  profits
would be far greater, if means could be adopted to prevent
the early decay of the trees.  The average coninuance of a
peach orchard is from six to eight years; and four crops of
fruit are considered a liberal return.  The disease which
destroys the trees is termed the yellows.  Would it not be
commendable in the New Jersey State Agricultural Society,
which has just been organized, or even in the legislature of
that State, of offer a bounty for the discovery of a cure
or a preventive of this disease? x x x

"The extent of the peach plantations will seem extravagant
to some of our northern readers.  Many growers have
10,000 trees, one 30,000; and at one place in Shrewsbury [Monmouth
Co.]. there are 50,000 trees growing contiguous and
forming as it were one magnificent orchard."  Notes on New
Jersey Farming, p. 131, of The Cultivator, Albany, N.Y.
Sept, 1839.

[Correspond with parties in Shrewsbury, or visit in 1888
to learn present extent of peach industry.]
        