
          176

In 1843 Isaac Reeves' peach trees were dying of yellows
by the score, "[mangre] all his care, cultivation and circumspection."
John Delano, of Delaware. Ibid. p. 167.

"Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India." By
Thomas A. C. Firminger, M.A., Third edition, Calcutta, Thacker,
Spink & Co., 5, Gov't. Place. 1874.

This author says that there are only three distinct varieties
of the peach cultivated in India"--1. The Saharunpore
peach; 2, The Flat China; 3. The Calcutta.

"In this country the peach makese such vigorous growth of
wood, that shortly after the close of the rains some artificial
plan is necessary to be adopted to assist it in ripening
p. 240.  The general impression one gets is that the peach
is not very successful in India, especially on the plains.

"A Short Treatise on Horticulture." By William Prince, of
Flushing, Long Island, N.Y., Printed by T. & J. Swords, 127,
Broadway, 1828.  Treating of peaches, this book contains
the following on yellows:-

"There are two causes which have operated against the
success of this tree, and which seem peculiar to it--the
        