246 GENERAL HISTORY. 



Article 11 — Amendments. 



These by-laws may be altered or amended by a two-thirds vote of members present 

 and voting at any regular or special meeting of the Exchang-^; provided that at 'east 

 ten days' previous public notic<i shall have been given. 



With the immense' amount and the great variety of fruits grown and 

 shipped from the county, and especially from the vicinity of the harbor of 

 St. Joseph, the supplying of the needful packages grew to be a business of 

 much magnitude. The following are some of the enterprises established 

 from time to time to supply this need : — 



L. Carpenter & Co., fruit baskets and packages, Benton Harbor, 1866. 



C. Colby, fruit baskets and packages, Benton Harbor, 1806. 



Ingham, Leslie & Co., fruit packages, Benton Harbor, 1870. 



Excelsior Packing Co., established in 1870, became the Victor Packing 

 Company in 1873, Benton Harbor. 



Alden Evaporating and Canning Co., Benton Harbor, 1877. 



Michigan Basket Factory, St. Joseph, 1867. 



Wm. E. Wilcox & Co., fruit package and veneering, St. Joseph, 1864. 



Berrien county, according to the census of 1884, has of apple orchards, 

 14,356 acres, 468,379 bearing trees, yielding in 1883, 209,011 bushels of fruit. 



Peach orchards, 503 acres, 26,419 bearing trees, yielding in 1883, 598 

 bushels of fruit. 



The value of orchard products of all kinds sold or consumed in 1883, was 

 $128,171.00. 



Vineyards, 833 acres : grapes sold in 1883, 493,035 pounds. 



wine made in 1883, 677 gallons- 

 Nurseries, 14 acres; products sold in 1883, $1,427.00. 



Market garden products sold in 1883, $35,671.00. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



The French inhabitants along the eastern border of Michigan had the tra- 

 dition that the early French missionaries brought cions and trees from Nor- 

 mandy; and that they planted seeds and trees, near their rude cabins, along 

 both sides of the river, from Monroe to Mt. Clemens. In a paper read at the 

 meeting of the State Pomological Society, held at Battle Creek, in February, 

 1873, J. C. Holmes, of Detroit, says : " I have seen it stated that several pear 

 trees were brought from France, in the year 1749, and planted along the river 

 side, from the Brush to the Witherell farm, in Detroit, a distance of nearly 

 one mile. How correct this statement may be I do not know ; but it seems to 

 be a well ascertained fact that, in no other locality in this country, can such 

 trees be found as the ancient pear trees that are now standing on the banks 

 of Detroit river. It is not unusual for them to bear a crop of thirty to forty 

 bushels each." 



In a paper read by Edwin Willits, at a meeting of the State Pomological 

 Society, held at Monroe, June 30th, 1874, he contributes a few facts bearing 

 on this subject, as follows: " Old Francis Navarre, led by the spiritof adven- 



