332 GENERAL HISTORY. 



peaches shipped during the fall. The Spring Lake Horticultural Society re- 

 ceived the silver medal and diploma of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 

 Society for an exhibition of peaches at the State fair in Milwaukee in Sep- 

 tember. 



George H. Lovell has 4,500 peach trees on 25 acres; yield, 7,000 baskets; 

 receipts, 63,500; also one-half acre of grapes, yield 7,000 pounds; receipts, 

 $200; apples, 20 bushels. 



Charles E, Soule from 299 peach trees, yield 2,241 baskets; net proceeds, 

 $982. Grapes yielded S251.95. 



J. B. Soule from 2,000 three-year peach trees shipped 1,000 baskets. From 

 360 Concord and Delaware vines he shipped 4,500 lbs. ; from Doolittle rasp- 

 berries 40 bushels. Total net proceeds $820.00. E. A. Treadwayhas 15 acres 

 reclaimed from forest and planted within three years. One hundred bearing 

 peach trees produced 60 baskets, five hundi*ed young grape-vines yielded 3,- 

 000 lbs. He also produced 10 bushels of black-cap and 10 bushels of red 

 raspberries. Total net proceeds $170.00. Martin Walsh, from 111 peach 

 trees shipped 1,000 baskets; from 1,426 grapes he shipped 280,550 lbs. ; also 10 

 bushels crab apples, 10 bushels raspberries and 20 bushels blackberries. Total 

 net proceeds 11,550.50. 



Chttrles Allen produced 7,900 lbs. grapes, 25 bushels strawberries, and 28 

 bushels raspberries. Net proceeds $896.00. 



n. G. Smith shipped 789 baskets of peaches, 200 boxes grapes and 110 

 bushels apples. Net proceeds 1497.67. 



T. D. Dennison from 100 young peach trees shipped 600 baskets, from 200 

 grape-vines 2,000 lbs. Net proceeds $440.00. 



John K. Kneeland & Co., proprietors of Spring Lake nursery, own 161 

 acres of land, one-half in orchard; 1,200 peach trees beginning to bear, 

 yielded 1,000 baskets; 250 apple trees now bearing; 4:-h acres of new vineyard 

 yielded 2,500 lbs., also two acres in small fruits. 



L. D. Bartholomew has 7 acres in peaches. From one acre shipped 125 

 baskets ; from 500 vines shipped 2,000 lbs. grapes ; also 200 quarts of rasp- 

 berries. 



Hiram Beckwith has 150 young apple trees which bore 60 bushels, 10 bush- 

 els of pears from two trees. He also has 600 peach trees, 200 quinces, three 

 years old, one acre of vineyard, half an acre of strawberries and a quarter acre 

 of raspberries. 



W. G. Sinclair sold 200 baskets peaches, 40 bushels apples, 20 bushels rasp- 

 berries and 2,000 lbs. of grapes. 



Most of the foregoing orchards and vineyards are within the corporate lim- 

 its of Spring Lake. 



In December, 1872, D. R. Waters, of Spring Lake, states that the peach 

 crop of that year amounted to only 16,000 baskets, and that there were plant- 

 ed, closely about the village 65,000 peach trees, including Early Crawford, 

 Late Crawford, Hale, Barnard, Honest John (yellow), Morris' White, Old- 

 mixon (free), Jacques, Early York (serrate). Large Early York, Eed Cheek, 

 Melacoton, Coolidge, Stump-the- World, Hill's Chili, Royal George, Mountain 

 Rose, George the Fourth, Late Admirable Heath (cling), etc. He thinks 

 that the majority of peach growers on average sites, in an orchard of 1,000 

 trees, would plant about as follows: 100 Hale, 100 Early Crawford, 275 

 Barnard, 150 Oldmixon (free), 100 Late Crawford, 275 Hill'^s Chili. He also 

 states that the year's grape crop amounted to 175,000 lbs. grown on 47,000 



