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in the Massachusetts Bay in New England" we read (p. 392):
"As for fruit stones and kernells, the time of the year fits
not to send them now; so we propose to do it per our next."

"A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; etc.." By Geo.
Lindley. Edited by John Lindley.  First American, from the
last London edition.  By Michael Floy, Gardener and Nurseryman,
N. Y. and C. M. of the Hort. Society of London. New York.  G. F.
Hopkins & Son. 1833. The 2nd Ed. was published about 1845.- The
portion relating to peaches is about the same.

Mr. Floy (p.363) says he has had thirty years experience as a
nurseryman in New York and in treating of peaches and nectarines
(pp. 363-371) he discards Lindley entirely and writes a chapter of his own.

Peach budded on plum.

Mr. Floy says (p. 366): "The plum stock ceases to send
up its sap earlier in the fall, causing the peach to perfect 
its wood before the cold weather sets in."

Mr. Floy had seen yellows in the vicinity of New York
and mentions premature, red-spotted fruit as one of the
symptom.  He says: 
        