This is a tree that every school boy knows, from the fact that its fruit has tickled his sense of taste to a luscious degree. The bark of the twigs, and the inner bark of the body, and leaves, all have or contain a very useful remedy. No family should be without a sack of the leaves in their house.

Medical properties and uses. -- I prefer the leaves to either of the barks. Peach Tree has a wonderful power in quieting irritation of the stomach and the three sections of the small bowels. In small doses it is a mild tonic. I have known the most obstinate cases of vomiting quieted by an infusion of the leaves, or a tea, given in tablespoonful doses every ten or fifteen minutes till the vomiting ceases or stops. The same can be said of this remedy in the treatment of cholera morbus. A hot poultice of the leaves or bark should be laid on the pit of the stomach at the same time. I have seen this accomplish more than any other remedy in such cases. Take and boil the leaves with bread and milk, and it makes a good poultice for bad cuts and wounds where the inflammation runs too high, and the wound is throbbing with pain. The tincture of the bark is prepared in the same manner as I have described before. The dose is from 8 to 10 drops to a half teaspoonful, every two, three or four hours, as the case may demand. I shall now give you a description of something remarkably strange, that was told by the Rev. R. E. Hera, in the pulpit of the Baptist church in Amelia, Ohio. It appeared marvelous to me, but I have no right to dispute it. "There was a man that gave a great deal of attention to the growing of fine peach trees. He had a very fine peach orchard and one day when walking through it, seeing a very large peach he plucked it and ate it. In nine days he was taken with hydrophobia and died. It aroused curiosity, and they took the leaves of the tree and bark and had them examined They then dug the tree up by the roots, and mingled with the roots they found the skeleton of a dog. Then one of the hired hands remembered of burying a mad dog there. It was decided that the poison was carried by the roots through the tree into the peach."