
          247

Here are also peaches very good; and in great quantities; not
an Indian plantation without them; but whether naturally here
at first, I know not.  However, one may have them by bushels
for little; they make a pleasant drink; and I think not inferior
to any peach you have in England, except the true
Newington," Vol. I. p. 249.

In his chapters on the "General State of Pennsylvania
between the years 1760 and 1770" this author says:

"In some places peaches are so common and plentiful,
that the country people feed their hogs with them."  Vol. II.
p. 268.

"The Yellows in Peach Trees."  By Noyes Darling. New York
Farmer and Horticultural Repository. New York, 1831. pp. 9
and 10.

I quote and summarize from this valuable paper, which is
signed "Woodbridge, Conn. Dec. 21, 1830", as follows:

"The disease denominated the 'yellows' is rapidly destroying
the peach trees in this part of the country (New Haven 
and vicinity), and, unless we discover some effectual preventive
or remedy, we have reason to apprehend the entire extermination
of that valuable tree. * * *
        