
          202

Yardley Taylor, of Loudon Co., Va., in his report for
Virginia says:

"Peaches succeed well here [1849]. It is no uncommon
thing to see trees thirty or forty years old.  The yellows
occasionally are seen, and where no efforts are made to extirpate
those that are affected, the disease has in some
places destroyed many trees; but where pains have been taken 
to prevent it,  the disease seldom appears.  In comparing the
time of ripening with Downing's work where the varieties are
recognized, they ripen ten or twelve days earlier than at
Newburgh, or New York." pp. 294-5.

A Flushing, Mich., writer on p. 246 of the Michigan Farmer,
Niles, 1849, recommends budding peach on plum stock
(Brompton). He has seen "peach trees  on plum stocks that
were over fifty years old, and yet thrifty and growing vigorously."
[Not in Michigan, I conclude, Probably in England]

Peaches were grown in Ontario Co., N.Y., for some years
prior to 1821. p. 169 of Michigan Farmer, Niles, Mich 1849.
The writer remembers but one failure of the peach crop up to
that date. This was due to frost in winter.
        