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Thursday, January 7th, 1858. The society adjudged it worthy of trial, and, 

 upon the suggestion of Mr. Hathaway, it was named Paw Paw and described 

 under this name in the next issue of the Michigan Farmer, from which the 

 description of Mr. Downing was taken. Under the recognized rules of 

 pomological nomenclature this name seems to be entitled to be considered 

 the leading name, the others being synonyms. 



About the year 1883 or '84, Mr. L. T. Kawson, of Decatur, observing the 

 prosperity of celery culture at Kalamazoo, undertook the development of a 

 similar enterprise upon the moist mucky soils upon his farm adjacent to 

 Dowagiac creek, near that place. Mr. Rawson's undertaking has been so far 

 successful that not only has he enlarged his plantation, but several of his 

 neighbors, with similar soils, have also embarked in the business. There are 

 now thirty-three acres devoted to this crop. 



Onions have also been very successfully and profitably grown upon this 

 soil. These experiments have resulted so satisfactorily that still others are 

 turning their attention to the utilization of this heretofore waste land ; and, 

 recently, Mr. Rawson has plowed eighty-six acres of marsh and another per- 

 son ten acres, for cropping next year. 



The county of Van Buren, according to the census of 1884, had, of 



Apple orchards, 10,997 acres, 337,054 bearing treei, yielding in 1883, 140,- 

 778 bushels of fruit. 



Peach orchards, 2,181 acres, 126,793 bearing trees, yielding in 1883, 13,- 

 555 bushels of fruit. 



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

 $104,393. 



Vineyards, 260 acres; grapes sold in 1883, 135,791 pounds. 



wine made in 1983, 15 gallons. 



Nurseries, 47 acres; products sold in 1883, $4,648. 



Market garden products sold in 1888, $3,659. 



The shipments of horticultural products from the port of South Haven 

 during the shipping period of 1886, as reported through the press at that 

 place, were: — 



Baskets of fruit, 240,672; crates of berries, etc., 25,647. 



Barrels of fruit, etc., 11,045 ; boxes of celery, 66. 



MACOMB COUNTY. 



This county was laid off by proclamation of Governor Lewis Cass, on 

 January 15th, 1818, with limits much more extensive than at present. Its 

 boundaries were considerably reduced by a second proclamation on Septem- 

 ber 10th, 1822, although even yet greatly exceeding its dimensions at the 

 present time. 



It was named in honor of General Alexander Macomb. 



The county seat was located by commissioners, appointed by the governor, 

 at Mt. Clemens, which took its name from Christian Clemens, who settled 

 there, as a farmer, in the year 1800. 



Several Moravian missionaries, who had been seized by Indians and brought 

 to Detroit as prisoners, were advised, with the assent of the Ohippeway 



