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PROFITS OF FRUIT CULTURE. 



Elisha Swain, of Darby, near Philadel- 

 phia, has the remains of a cherry orchard, 

 numbering seventy trees, mostly of the 

 Mayduke variety. In the height of the 

 season, his sales amount to upwards of 

 eighty dollars per day. Mr. S., to ensure 

 a good crop every season, digs in a horse- 

 cart load of manure to each tree in autumn. 



Hill Pennell, of Darby, has twenty ap- 

 ple trees, of the Early Redstreak and Early 

 Queen varieties, that stand on half an acre 

 of ground. In 1S46 these trees produced 

 three hundred bushels of fruit that sold in 

 Philadelphia market for 75 cents per bushel, 

 or two hundred and twenty-five dollars for 

 the crop. 



Mr. Pennell has a grape vine of the 

 Raccoon [Fox grape] variety, that covers 

 the tops of fourteen apple trees. It has 

 never been pruned, but produces seventy- 

 five bushels of grapes yearly, that sell for 

 one dollar per bushel. The apple trees 

 produce good crops of fruit, and under the 

 trees is produced a crop of grass ; thus 

 making three crops from one lot of ground. 



James Laws, of Philadelphia, has a 

 Washington plum tree, that produces six 

 bushels of fruit yearly, that would sell in 

 market for ten dollars per bushel. Five of 

 the above plums weigh a pound. 



Mr. Laws has a small vineyard of Isa- 

 bella and Catawba grapes, near Chester, 

 sixteen miles below Philadelphia, three- 

 eighths of an acre of which came into bear- 

 ing in 1845. The sales amounted to three 

 hundred dollars at eight cents per pound, 

 or at the rate of eight hundred dollars per 

 acre from vines only four years old. 



BpaNTON Darlington, of West^ Chester, 

 Pa., has a Catawba grape vine, that produ- 

 ces ten bushels of grapes yearly. This 

 crop is worth forty dollars at market price. 



Jacob Steinnentz, of Philadelphia, has a 

 Blue Gage plum tree, that produces ten 



bushels of fruit in a season, worth in mar- 

 ket, thirty dollars. 



My friend, Ellwood Hakvey. Chadds- 

 ford. Pa., the present season gathered thir- 

 teen quarts of gooseberries from one plant. 



A gardener near Philadelphia, has two 

 rows of goosebery plants, one hundred and 

 fifty feet long. One afternoon, he gather- 

 ed with his own hands, six bushels of fruit, 

 and the next morning sold them in Phila- 

 delphia market for twenty-four dollars. 



A gentleman of Philadelphia having two 

 apricot trees, that produced more fruit than 

 his family could consume, concluded to send 

 the balance to market, and expend the mo- 

 ney it would bring in purchasing wood for 

 the poor. 



Judge Line, of Carlisle, Pa., has had 

 two Syrian apricot trees that have produced 

 five bushels to each tree in a season. In 

 the Philadelphia market, they would have 

 commanded one hundred and twenty dol- 

 lars, in the New-York market one hundred 

 and forty dollars. 



Hugh Hatch, of Camden, N. J., has four 

 Tewksbury Winter Blush apple trees, that 

 in 1846 produced one hundred and forty 

 market baskets of apples. Without any 

 extra care, ninety baskes of these were on 

 hand late in the spring of 1847, when they 

 readily sold at one dollar per basket. 



The following facts relative to fruit grow- 

 ing near the North river, I have never seen 

 published. Three years ago, Mr. Chaeles 

 Downing, of Newburgh, N. Y., informed 

 me that a fruit-grower of his acquaintance 

 in Fishkill Landing, N. Y., had gathered 

 fifteen barrels of Lady apples from one 

 tree, and sold them in New-York for forty- 

 five dollars. The same gentleman you 

 speak of, in your Fruits and Fruit Trees of 

 America, as having sent to New-York, six- 

 teen hundred bushels of plums in one sea- 

 son, has sent to New-York apricots and re- 



