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In the township of Grass Lake, Ralph Updike, Benjamin Carter, William 

 H. Pease, J. Keyes, T. Boynton, and A. Soper. 



In the township of Leoni, Guy C. Chatfield, Benjamin Welsh, Abel F. Fitch, 

 Amasa M. Barber, Luther F. Grandy, Jacob Cawood and Jacob Sagendorf. 



In the township of Waterloo, Aaron Gorton, Patrick Hubbard, Casper Artz, 

 E. S. Robinson, John Barber, and Abraham Croman. 



In the township of Henrietta, A. Bunker, Samuel Prescott, A. Hall, W. S. 

 Pixley, and B. H. Pixley. 



In "the township of Blackman, Henry Daniels, A. W. Daniels, Nathaniel 

 Morrell, J. T. McConnell, J. R. Poole, and S. Z. Crawford. 



In the township of Summit, James De Puy, A. McCain, Michael Shoemaker, 

 John Durand, and Dwight Merriman. 



In the township of Liberty, S. H. Holmes, Cornelius Gary, Noah Keeler, 

 Michael Kerr, H. J. Crego, and M. W. Crippin. 



In the township of Spring Arbor, J. G. Perrine, C. Crowl, A. M. Pardee, 

 H. C. Roberts, G. W. Chapel, W. S. Crowl, Louis Snyder, Jr., J. Belden and 

 Harry Holcomb. 



In the township of Parma, Wm. G. Brown, G. R. Davis, N. B. Graham, J. 

 D. Mackey, F. F. Richardson, and J. Taylor. 



In the township of Springport, W. H. Hammond, H. Fitzgerald, W. S. 

 Brown, James M. Jameson, 0. V. Hammond, G. Landon, S. H. Ludlow, S. 

 0. Gillett, and G. T. Griffeth. 



The foregoing is compiled from the best sources of information I have been 

 able to find. It is more than probable that some of the early orchardists in 

 the county are not named. 



I can learn of no earlier nursery than that of the Hon. Townsend E. Gidley. 

 Morgan Case, of Napoleon, planted apple seeds in 1832, raised a nursery, from 

 which the trees were obtained for many orchards now in bearing. Luther F. 

 Grandy had a nursery in Leoni at a very early day. Benjamin Welsh, of the 

 same township, also had a nursery. 



Isaac N. Swain, of Concord, had a nursery among the first in the county. 

 Harmon Landon established a nursery in Springport soon after settling in that 

 township. Morgan Buchanan planted a nursery on section 33, township of 

 Hanover, soon after the settlement of that township. 



Mr. Cook had a nursery for many years on his place, now in the city 



of Jackson, of all kinds of fruit trees. I. M. Harwood and Richard Dunning 

 had an apple nursery on the farm of Hon. James C. Wood, commencing some 

 time about 1855. They also had a nursery on their own place in the city, on 

 which they had all kinds of fruit and ornamental trees suitable to the climate 

 of this State. 



PEACHES. 



Peaches have always been raised in this county from its first settlement. 

 There never was failure, or injury to the trees or fruit until January, 1854, 

 when all the trees in this county were severely injured or killed by the extreme 

 cold weather. Since that time the crop has been an uncertain one, but there 

 have always been orchards of greater or less extent. The largest orchard ever 

 planted in the county was on the farm of M. Shoemaker, in the township of 

 Summit. It was planted by Harwood & Dunning with varieties from their 

 nursery, and bore many crops of most excellent fruit. This orchard was 

 planted in 1855 and 1856, but no longer exists. There is now a growing 



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