> peach
> 
> peach pitS, sb.1 Forms: 4-6 peche, 5 peshe, pesshe, (peske, peesk),
> 6 peache, 6- peach. ME. a. Fr. pêche, OFr. peche, earlier pesche, in
> ONFr. peske (= Pr. persega, Ital. persica, pesca):- late L. persica
> (med.L. in Du Cange), for cl. L. persicum, ellipt. for Persicum
> malum lit. Persian apple: so Persica malus or arbor, peach-tree. The
> phonetic development in Romanic was persica, *persca, pesca, peske,
> pesche, pêche.
> 
> 1.
> 
> a. The fruit of the tree Amygdalus persica (see 2), a large drupe,
> usually round, of a whitish or yellow colour, flushed with red, with
> downy skin, highly flavoured sweet pulp, and rough furrowed stone;
> cultivated in many varieties.
> 
> The varieties are classed as clingstone or freestone according as
> the pulp adheres to or separates from the stone. The nectarine is a
> variety with smooth skin and different flavour.
> 
>    * ? A. 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 1373 And many hoomly trees ther
>      were, That peches, coynes, and apples bere.
> 
>    * C. 1440 Promp. Parv. 395/1 Peske, or peche, frute [v.rr. peesk,
>      peshe], pesca, pomum Percicum.
> 
>    * C. 1483 Caxton Dialogues 13/7 Cheryes,..strawberies,..pesshes,
>      medliers.
> 
>    * 1542 Boorde Dyetary xxi. (1870) 283 Peches doeth mollyfy the
>      bely, and be colde.
> 
>    * 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 569 The velvet Peach, gilt
>      Orenge, downy Quince.
> 
>    * 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 114 Peaches and Aprecocks are of one
>      and the same nature.
> 
>    * 1730-46 Thomson Autumn 676 The downy peach, the shining plum,
>      The ruddy, fragrant nectarine.
> 
>    * 1884 Miss Braddon Ishmael xxxvi, A gray velvet bodice that
>      fitted the plump, supple figure, as the rind fits the peach.
> 
> b. slang. Someone or something of exceptional worth or quality;
> someone or something particularly suitable or desirable, esp. an
> attractive young woman.
> 
>    * 1754 E. Turner Let. 16 Aug. in Dickins & Stanton 18th-Cent.
>      Corresp. (1910) 238, I had almost forgot that orange Peach,
>      your Niece.
> 
>    * 1863 B. Harte in Daily Even. Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Dec. 5/3
>      Phrases such as camps may teach,..Such as `Bully!' `Them's the
>      Peach!'
> 
>    * 1888 Puck (U.S.) XXII. 415/2 An' two young darters-one
>      eighteen. A reg'ler peach.
> 
>    * 1904 W. H. Smith Promoters vii. 134 You're a brick! You're a
>      peach!
> 
>    * 1907 Punch 2 Jan. 13/2 Prof. Br--ce: H'm! Nice pleasant
>      expression! One who was not a purist in language might almost
>      describe him as a `peach'.
> 
>    * 1917 Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 62 Opinions differ about
>      girls. One man's peach..is another man's poison.
> 
>    * 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 111, I..landed a hard right
>      on the side of his jaw and dropped him just like that. It was
>      one peach I handed him and he slumped down like a sack of mush.
> 
>    * 1924 J. Sutherland Circle of Stars xii. 126 It's a peach of a
>      storm, and it's getting worse every moment.
> 
>    * 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. June (1964) 484 He's a peach of a
>      fellow and absolutely first-rate.
> 
>    * 1930 R. Crompton William-the Bad i. 19 Now would you think that
>      a peach like her would fall for a fat-headed chump like that?
> 
>    * 1943 E. B. White Let. 1 Jan. (1976) 236 You were a peach to
>      give me such a good present.
> 
>    * 1949 Sunday World-Herald Mag. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1 May 2/1 The
>      new recipe for making a peach cordial: Buy her a drink.
> 
>    * 1974 Times 1 Apr. 12/4 She had, of course, a peach of a
>      subject.
> 
>    * 1976 Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 22/6 (Advt.), 1972
>      Peugeot 504, white, 34,000, a real peach, L1,395.
> 
>    * 1976 P. Dickinson King & Joker iv. 46 Louise had a history
>      essay, a real peach for which she'd only needed to look up a
>      few dates.
> 
>    * 1977 D. Francis Risk xiv. 179 Dad's brought the detestable
>      Lida... Actually I would have liked it..if he'd fallen for a
>      peach.
> 
> c.
> 
> peaches and cream
> 
> peaches and cream: used attrib. and absol. to designate a fair
> complexion characterized by creamy skin and pink cheeks.
> 
>    * 1901 Ade Forty Mod. Fables 188 Give me some perfumed Dope that
>      will restore a Peaches and Cream Complexion.
> 
>    * 1967 D. Shannon Rain with Violence (1969) i. 10 Carole had very
>      blonde hair..and a peaches-and-cream skin.
> 
>    * 1969 J. Ashford Prisoner at Bar vii. 62 She had the perfect
>      peaches-and-cream beauty that was often called classical
>      English.
> 
>    * 1975 New Yorker 9 June 46/3 She had a real peaches-and-cream
>      complexion and a trim figure.
> 
>    * 1978 J. W. Wainwright Jury People lxii. 211 His complexion..was
>      pure `peaches and cream'.
> 
> 2. The tree Amygdalus (Prunus) persica, N.O. Rosaceæ, a native of
> Asia, introduced in ancient times into Europe; the peach-tree.
> 
>    * C. 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 83 (Ashm. MS.) The ius of pe leeues
>      of pechis.
> 
>    * 1530 Palsgr. 252/2 Peache, tree, peschier.
> 
>    * 1663 Cowley Disc., Garden x, He bids the rustick Plum to rear A
>      noble Trunk, and be a Peach.
> 
>    * 1796 C. Marshall Garden. xvii. (1813) 284 Peach..succeeds
>      better than the nectarine, as to bearing and ripening.
> 
>    * 1898 Johnson's Gard. Dict. 722/2 Do not brush off the foliage
>      of peaches in the autumn.
> 
> 3. Applied to other edible fruits resembling the peach, or to the
> plants producing them:
> 
> a. Sarcocephalus esculentus, a climbing shrub of West Africa (
> 
> Guinea, Negro, or Sierra Leone peach
> 
> Guinea, Negro, or Sierra Leone peachGuinea, Negro, or Sierra Leone
> peach), bearing a large juicy berry arising from the fused ovaries
> of a cluster of flowers;
> 
> b. the quandong, Fusanus acuminatus or Santalum acuminatum, of
> Australia (
> 
> native peach
> 
> native peach):
> 
> c. Prunus caroliniana, the Carolina cherry-laurel (
> 
> wild peach
> 
> wild peach), also called wild orange;
> 
> d.
> 
> wolf's peach
> 
> wolf's peach, the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
> 
>    * 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Peach, Wolf's, Solanum.
> 
>    * 1866 Treas. Bot. 854 Peach, Guinea,..Native, of Australia,..of
>      Sierra Leone.
> 
>    * 1866 Treas. Bot. 1020 S[arcocephalus] esculentus has pink
>      flowers and an edible fruit, of the size of a peach, whence it
>      has been called the Sierra Leone Peach.
> 
> 4. Short for peach-brandy: see 6. (U.S.)
> 
>    * 1809 M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion viii. 74 Suppose you take
>      a glass of Peach.
> 
>    * 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs v. 53 Thar's
>      koniac, and old peach, and rectified.
> 
>    * 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiv. (1856) 302 There the air, pure
>      and sharply cold..braces you up like peach and honey in a
>      Virginia fog.
> 
>    * 1880 Barman's Man. 55 Peach and Honey, one table-spoonful of
>      honey; one wine-glass of peach brandy. Stir with a spoon.
> 
> 5. = peach-colour: see 6; also attrib. or as adj.
> 
>    * 1848 Dickens Dombey xxxvii, The diamonds or the peach-velvet
>      bonnet.
> 
>    * 1882 Garden 16 Sept. 260/1 Blooms of..rosy peach.
> 
>    * 1900 London Letter 26 Jan. 133/1 Outlined in varying shades of
>      roses from palest peach to deepest puce;..pleatings of white
>      chiffon edged with peach ruches.
> 
> 6. attrib. and Comb., as
> 
> peach-bud
> 
> peach-bud,
> 
> peach-down
> 
> -down,
> 
> peach-flavour
> 
> -flavour,
> 
> peach-flower
> 
> -flower,
> 
> peach-graft
> 
> -graft,
> 
> peach-kernel
> 
> -kernel,
> 
> peach-orchard
> 
> -orchard,
> 
> peach-stone
> 
> -stone;
> 
> peach-fed
> 
> peach-fed,
> 
> peach-like
> 
> -like adjs.; also with names of colours: designating that shade of
> the colour which is shown by the peach, as
> 
> peach-beige
> 
> peach-beige,
> 
> peach-green
> 
> -green,
> 
> peach-pink
> 
> -pink,
> 
> peach-red
> 
> -red;
> 
> peach aphid
> 
> peach aphid,
> 
> aphis
> 
> aphis, one of several aphides infesting peach trees, esp. the
> peach-potato aphis, Myzus persicae;
> 
> peach-bells
> 
> peach-bells, a name for the peach-leaved bellflower (Campanula
> persicifolia);
> 
> peach-black
> 
> peach-black, a black pigment made from calcined peach-stones;
> 
> peach-blight
> 
> peach-blight,
> 
> peach-blister
> 
> peach-blister, diseases of peach-trees, caused by the fungi Monilia
> fructigena and Taphrina deformans respectively;
> 
> peach-borer
> 
> peach-borer, a name of insects whose larvæ bore through the bark of
> the peach-tree: spec. a moth, Ægeria exitiosa, and a beetle, Dicerca
> divaricata;
> 
> peach-brake
> 
> peach-brake, a dense thicket of the `wild peach' in Texas (see 3 c);
> 
> peach-brandy
> 
> peach-brandy, a spirituous liquor made from the fermented juice of
> peaches;
> 
> peach cobbler
> 
> peach cobbler U.S., a cobbler (sense 4) made with peaches;
> 
> peach-colour
> 
> peach-colour,
> 
> a. the colour of a ripe peach, a soft pale red;
> 
> b. the colour of peach-blossom, a delicate rose or pink; also
> attrib. or as adj.; so
> 
> peach-coloured
> 
> peach-coloured a.;
> 
> peach fly
> 
> peach fly = peach aphid;
> 
> peach-house
> 
> peach-house, a building in which peaches are grown under glass;
> 
> peach leaf-curl
> 
> peach leaf-curl,
> 
> a. = leaf-curl,
> 
> b. s.v. leaf sb.1 18;
> 
> peach-leaved
> 
> peach-leaved a., having leaves like the peach;
> 
> peach Melba
> 
> peach Melba: see Melba;
> 
> peach myrtle
> 
> peach myrtle, name for the Australian myrtaceous shrubs of the genus
> Hypocalymma, with rose-coloured flowers;
> 
> peach oak
> 
> peach oak, name given to two N. American species of oak, Quercus
> densiflora (also chestnut oak or tan-bark oak), and Q. phellos
> (willow oak);
> 
> peach-palm
> 
> peach-palm, a species of palm (Guilielma speciosa) found in tropical
> south America, bearing a large egg-shaped red-and-orange fruit with
> firm flesh which becomes mealy and edible when cooked;
> 
> peach-pip
> 
> peach-pip,
> 
> peach-pit
> 
> -pit, a peach-stone;
> 
> peach-potato aphid
> 
> peach-potato aphid,
> 
> aphis
> 
> aphis, an aphis, Myzus persicæ, which causes leaf-curl in peach
> trees and other plants, and also transmits many plant virus
> diseases;
> 
> Peach State
> 
> Peach State, a sobriquet of the State of Georgia in the U.S.;
> 
> peach-water
> 
> peach-water, a flavouring extract obtained from peach-leaves, having
> a flavour of bitter almonds;
> 
> peach-wood
> 
> peach-wood, a dye-wood (also called Nicaragua wood) resembling
> brazil-wood, supposed to be that of some species of Cæsalpinia;
> 
> peach-worm
> 
> peach-worm, one of various caterpillars which infest the leaves of
> peach-trees, chiefly in America;
> 
> peach yellows
> 
> peach yellows, a virus disease affecting cultivated peach-trees,
> esp. in the United States, in which the leaves become dwarfed,
> distorted, and yellowish, and the tree dies in a few years.
> 
>    * 1909 F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 324 *Peach
>      Aphides... At least four species of aphis attack the peach in
>      this country.
> 
>    * 1937 A. M. Massee Pests of Fruit & Hops vii. 163 The Peach
>      Aphis has been recorded on a very large number of host plants,
>      including fruit trees.
> 
>    * 1942 Phytopathology XXXII. 93 (title) A virosis-like injury of
>      snapdragons caused by feeding of peach aphid.
> 
>    * 1963 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. IX. 875 (title) Some amino acid
>      requirements of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae.
> 
>    * 1927 *Peach-beige [see grège a. and sb.].
> 
>    * 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxi. 366 Of *Peach bels, and Steeple
>      bels.
> 
>    * 1611 Cotgr., Campanettes blanches, White Peach-bels, or
>      Steeple-bell-flowers.
> 
>    * 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. 265 (Index), Black..Peach-stone 180.
> 
>    * 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. xxi. 180 Similar blacks are prepared
>      of vine twigs and tendrils,..also from peach-stones, &c. whence
>      Almond black;
> 
>    * 1869 T. W. Salter Field's Chromatogr. (new ed.) xxi. 407 *Peach
>      Black, or Almond Black, made by burning the stones of fruits,
>      the shell of the cocoa-nut, &c., is a violet-black, once much
>      used by Parisian artists;
> 
>    * 1948 F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting (1951) i. 3 You will
>      want to add the following to the palette: Raw Sienna,..New Blue
>      and Peach Black.
> 
>    * 1963 Times 6 May 16/3 Many students will remember how much
>      `Corfi' enjoyed laying a wash of thickly sedimented peach black
>      and raw sienna on a drawing that had taken weeks to prepare.
> 
>    * 1866 Treas. Bot. 854 *Peach-blister, an affection to which
>      peach-leaves are subject, the leaves becoming thick, bladdery,
>      and curled.
> 
>    * 1711 W. Byrd Secret Diary 9 Sept. (1941) 403 After drinking two
>      drams of *peach brandy we returned to Mrs. Randolph's.
> 
>    * C. 1780 [see apple-brandy].
> 
>    * 1814 Scott Diary 10 Aug. in Lockhart, They could get from an
>      American trader a bottle of peach-brandy or rum.
> 
>    * 1881 E. E. Frewer tr. Holub's Seven Years S. Afr. I. xi. 420
>      The next farm..was that belonging to Martin Zwart, whom we
>      found engaged in distilling peach-brandy.
> 
>    * 1965 Amerine & Singleton Wine xvii. 268 Wines were made also
>      from peaches and distilled into peach brandy.
> 
>    * 1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle vii. 129 As peach brandy goes, this
>      is among the best sluks I've ever tasted.
> 
>    * 1666 Boyle Formes & Qual; i. iii. Wks. 1772 III. 72 A
>      *peach-bud does..change the sap that comes to it into a fruit
>      very differing from that which the stock naturally produceth.
> 
>    * 1859 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 90 Cobbler... According to
>      the fruit, it is an apple or a *peach cobbler.
> 
>    * 1880 [see cobbler 4].
> 
>    * 1947 Reader's Digest Apr. 130/2 You could smell a peach cobbler
>      all through dinner.
> 
>    * 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 14/3 Peach cobbler
>      (recipe follows).
> 
>    * 1599 J. Rider Bibl. Schol. 1709 A *peach colour, persicus
>      color.
> 
>    * 1605 Lond. Prodigal i. B ij b, A peach colour satten shute, Cut
>      vpon cloath of siluer.
> 
>    * 1735 Dict. Polygraph. s.v. Glass, To make a Peach colour in
>      Glass.
> 
>    * 1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 19 Take note how many paire of
>      Silk stockings thou hast? (Viz. these, and those that were thy
>      *peach-colour'd ones.)
> 
>    * 1852 Beck's Florist June 131 Daphne Mezereum..pretty
>      peach-coloured blossoms.
> 
>    * 1894 Mrs. Dyan All in a Man's K. (1899) 170 She smoothed one
>      *peach-down cheek with complacency.
> 
>    * 1796 New Ann. Reg. 165 Not the shade Ambrosial, waving its
>      *peach-flowers that blow To pearly grapes, and kiss the turf
>      below.
> 
>    * 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 29 Peach-flower red-pale
>      whitish red.
> 
>    * 1865 Our Young Folks I. 715 The *peach-fly was thus kept from
>      laying its eggs in the soft bark at the surface of the ground.
> 
>    * 1905 Chambers's Jrnl. May 368/1 The peach..is not now
>      obtainable, through the inroads of the peach-fly.
> 
>    * 1971 J. Drummond Farewell Party 8 A great sunset..a wash of
>      *peach-green that ran across the sky.
> 
>    * 1887 Bot. Gaz. XII. 216 (title) The `Curl' of Peach Leaves.
> 
>    * 1887 Bot. Gaz. XII. 216 (title Pl. xiii. (caption) )Knowles on
>      Peach Curl.
> 
>    * 1888 Amer. Naturalist XXII. 738 T[aphrina] deformans Tul.,
>      causing the `peach curl' of the leaves of the peach tree.
> 
>    * 1899 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station CLXIV. 371
>      *Peach leaf-curl is a disease which has long been known to the
>      orchardist as well as to the botanist; and since the seasons of
>      1897 and 1898 there are probably very few peach growers..who
>      are unfamiliar with the disease.
> 
>    * 1904 Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 10/2 A fungus disease called peach
>      leaf-curl..does injury to the extent of L600,000 annually in
>      the United States.
> 
>    * 1920 P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis; xxxv. 557 Peach
>      Leaf Curl... Plants Attacked. Peaches, nectarines and almonds.
> 
>    * 1955 H. Wormald Dis. Fruit & Hops (ed. 3) vii. 172 Peach Leaf
>      Curl..is found not only on peaches but also on nectarines and
>      almonds.
> 
>    * 1976 Country Life 18 Mar. 685/3 Garlic is said to protect
>      peaches from peach-leaf curl.
> 
>    * 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxi. 366 Campanula Persicifolia.
>      *Peach-leafed Bell flower..hath a great number of small and
>      long leaues, rising in a great bush out of the ground, like the
>      leaues of the Peach tree.
> 
>    * 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 169 His downy cheeks as
>      *peach-like and blooming as ever.
> 
>    * 1882 Garden 9 Sept. 230/3 The *Peach Myrtle..is one of the many
>      beautiful Australian plants.
> 
>    * 1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 209 *Peach oak (so called
>      from the resemblance of its leaves to that of the peach tree).
> 
>    * 1897 G. B Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 177 Quercus
>      phellos Linn. Willow Oak... Common Names... Peach Oak (N.J.,
>      Del., Ohio).
> 
>    * 1676 T. Glover in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XI. 628 Here are
>      likewise great *Peach-Orchards, which bear..an infinite
>      quantity of Peaches.
> 
>    * 1758 Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 257 We..overtook
>      them at a peach orchard.
> 
>    * C. 1805 D. McClure Diary (1899) 68 Between the house & the bank
>      of the River was a..peach orchard;
> 
>    * A. 1936 Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vi. 170 A
>      bull-kudu..would jump the seven-foot fence round our little
>      peach orchard.
> 
>    * 1955 W. Moore Bring Jubilee xix. 185, I made my way towards a
>      farm on which there was a wheat-field and a peach orchard.
> 
>    * 1974 Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 2 Nov. 32/3 A long valley, green
>      and golden with peach orchards-Canada's peach heartland.
> 
>    * 1863 Bates Nat. Amazon x. (1864) 325 The celebrated
>      `*peach-palm'..is a common tree at Ega. The name, I suppose, is
>      in allusion to the colour of the fruit, and not to its flavour.
> 
>    * 1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf i. vii. 97 Ah Dai fingered and
>      thumbed a fragment of the *peach-pink silk he had unfurled for
>      her inspection.
> 
>    * 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 2 The last word in cocktail
>      bars and peach-pink sanitary fittings.
> 
>    * 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xiv. 171 Through the
>      windows I saw the circle of the Circassian mountains, indigo
>      and brown and peach-pink in the sunset.
> 
>    * 1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vi. 50 (heading)
>      Potato and Peach Aphis.
> 
>    * 1951 New Biol. XI. 51 The *peach-potato aphid..is the main
>      carrier of the known plant virus diseases throughout the world.
> 
>    * 1959 Times 27 July 9/5 The aphids responsible for spreading the
>      viruses-mainly the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae-are able
>      to multiply on the [potato] crop during the summer.
> 
>    * 1975 D. S. Hill Agric. Insect Pests of Tropics v. 163/1
>      Peach-Potato Aphid... Peach (primary host)... Potato (secondary
>      host), and polyphagous on many other crop plants and weeds.
> 
>    * 1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf 114 My unborn son waits to clutch
>      my heart-strings with *peach-red fingers, with the call of
>      flesh to flesh.
> 
>    * 1935 W. de la Mare Poems, 1919-1934 377 Peach-red carnelian,
>      apple-green chrysoprase, Amber and coral and orient pearl!
> 
>    * 1941 G. E. Shankle State Names (rev. ed.) ii. 110 Georgia was
>      nicknamed The *Peach State in 1939 because `peaches have been
>      an important product of Georgia since the middle of the
>      sixteenth century'.
> 
>    * 1954 Nat. Geogr. Mag. Mar. 318/1 Georgia's automobile license
>      plates carry the legend, `Peach State'.
> 
>    * 1970 G. Payton Webster's Dict. Proper Names 515/1 Peach State,
>      a nickname for Georgia, where peaches are now a valuable crop
>      in the center and south.
> 
>    * 1976 S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. 2/5 With out-of-state tourists
>      flocking to Jimmy Carter's home town in Plains, Georgia,
>      officials are looking for ways to lure the visitors to the
>      peach state's other attractions.
> 
>    * 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Peschenoix, a *Peach stone.
> 
>    * 1889 R. Brydall Art in Scot. xiv. 288 [Nasmyth] used largely a
>      colour he called peach-stone grey, made from calcined
>      peach-stones.
> 
>    * 1822 Imison Sc. & Art II. 186 *Peach-wood gives a colour
>      inferior to Brazil.
> 
>    * 1814 Cramer's Pittsburgh Mag. Almanac 1815 55 (heading) Remedy
>      for the *Peach Worm.
> 
>    * A. 1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. (1821) I. 76 The Peach Worm
>      has been known here for about fifty years; and is now become
>      very common.
> 
>    * 1856 Rep. Comm. Patents: Agric. 1855 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 299
>      The ravages of the peach-worm have proved more extensive than
>      usual.
> 
>    * 1808 R. Peters in Mem. Philad. Soc. for Promoting Agric. I. 23
>      Mr. H. begins to suffer by the disease, I call the `yellows'.
> 
>    * 1808 R. Peters in Mem. Philad. Soc. for Promoting Agric. 24 The
>      `yellows' are seen making destructive ravages in Mr. Heston's
>      peach plantation.
> 
>    * 1888 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. Bot. Div. IX. 9 *Peach yellows
>      appears to be confined exclusively to the Eastern United
>      States.
> 
>    * 1928 F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. iii. 23 The only means of checking
>      the spread of Peach Yellows is to destroy affected trees as
>      soon as seen.
> 
>    * 1956 H. W. Anderson Dis. Fruit Crops vii. 265 Peach yellows is
>      undoubtedly of American origin.
> 
>    * 1974 K. M. Smith Plant Viruses (ed. 5) i. 2 Two years later
>      [sc. 1888], Erwin F. Smith proved that the disease known as
>      `peach yellows' was also communicable and could be transmitted
>      by budding.