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assisted the growers to meet the destroyer in successful
combat.  And although to-day little more is known of the
cause of the disease than when it first invaded our soil, <s>its</s>
its symptoms are so well understood and the most approved
methods of warfare so thoroughly taught the growers, that its
progress is not feared." p. 420.

"The History of Pennsylvania in America, etc." By Robert
Proud. 2 Vols. Philadelphia, 1797.

From this book I quote as follows:

In 1680, Mahlon Stacy wrote a letter from New Jersey of
which the following is an extract:

"I have traveled through most of the places that are
settled, and some that are not; and in every place I find the
country very apt to answer the expectation of the diligent. I
have seen orchards laden with fruit to admiration; their very
limbs torn to pieces with the weight, and most delicious to the
taste, and lovely to behold.  I have seen an apple tree,
from a pippin kernel, yield a barrel of curious cider; and
peaches in such plenty, that some people took their carts
a peach gathering; I could not but smile at the conceit of it;
        