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shipping facilities and the country for miles around is a
continuous peach orchard [1872], interspersed with cherry,
plum, pear, and apple orchards." p. 102.

In 1846, in The Genesee Farmer, Rochester, N.Y., p. 94,
P. Barry says: "The peach is an important fruit of our region. Our
soil and climate are highly favorable for its culture. x x 
The peach worm is the chief difficulty we have to oppose, and
that is not a serious one."

In the same Journal, same year, p. 242, Mr. Barry says:
"There is no part of the United States where the peach
tree is more healthy or attains a greater age than in Western
New York.  It is only improper soil or culture, and bad
treatment that has caused early decay where it has occurred.

"The best orchards in this section now in full vigor are
bordering on twenty years old.  We have just been shown a
collection of various fruits, by Co. Colby, of Ogden, and
among others a fair-looking natural peach from a tree forty
years old, yet healthy and productive."

See p. 130, Genesee Farmer, 1857, for account of the
peach crop in Michigan.
        