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[Contrast latitude of Maryland and Delware with corresponding
places in Europe and Asia.]

"Here [in Virginia] is such plenty of peaches, that they
give them to their Hogs; some of them, call'd Malachotoons,
are as big as a Lemon, and resemble it a little."  Vol. I.
p. 440, of Sir John Oldmixon's, "British Empire in America."
Second Edition. London. 1741.

On p. 515 of the same volume, speaking of Carolina,
Oldmixon quotes from "Mr. Archdale" as follows:

"Everything generally grows there that will grow in any
Part of Europe, there being already many sorts of Fruits, as
Apples, Pears, Apricots, Nectarines, etc.  They that once
taste of them, will despise the watry washy Taste of those in
England.  There's such Plenty of them, that they are given to
the Hogs. In four or five Years they come from a Stone to
be bearing Trees."
[Other writers speak of Archdale as <s>a</s> trustworthy <s>writer</s>.]
Only one other mention of peaches in this volume and that
is borrowed from Wm. Penn.

[Are plants or animals in high state of cultivation or
improvement more subject to disease than others? Doubtful?]
        