Historical Notes 7 



" ' I have traveled through most of the places that are 

 settled, and some that are not ; and in every place I find the 

 country very apt to answer the expectation of the diligent. 

 I have seen orchards ladened with fruit to admiration ; their 

 very limbs torn to pieces by the weight, and most delicious 

 to the taste and lovely to behold. I have seen an apple tree 

 from a pippin kernel yield a barrel of curious cider, and 

 peaches in such plenty that some people took their carts 

 a peach gathering; I could not but smile at the conceit of 

 it; they are very delicate fruit, and hang almost like our 

 onions that are tied on ropes.' " 



"According to Robert Beverly,^ peaches grew abundantly 

 in Virginia at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 

 He says : 



"'Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, as well as plumbs and 

 cherries, grow there upon standard trees. They commonly 

 bear in three years from the stone, and thrive so exceedingly 

 that they seem to have no need of grafting or inoculating, if 

 anybody would be so good a husband ; and truly I never heard 

 of any that did graft either plumb, nectarine, peach, or apricot 

 in that country, before the first edition of this book [London, 

 1705].' 



" In 1733 peaches grew plentifully in Georgia, as indicated 

 by the following quotation : ^ 



1 *' The History of Virginia," by Robert Beverly, a native and 

 inhabitant of the place. Reprinted from the author's second 

 revised edition, London, 1722. J. W. Randolph, Richmond, Va., 

 1855, p. 259. 



2 "A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South 

 Carolina and Georgia." London, 1733. Said to be by General 

 Oglethorpe. Reprinted in Collections of the Georgia Historical 

 Society. Vol. 1, Savannah, 1840. 



