8 Peach-Growing 



"'Mulberries,, both black and white, are natives of this soil, 

 and are found in the woods, as are many other sorts of fruits of 

 excellent kinds, and the growth of them is surprisingly swift; 

 for a peach, apricot, or nectarine tree will, from the stone, grow 

 to be a bearing tree in four or five years' time [p. 50]/ 



" * They have oranges, lemons, apples, and pears, besides the 

 peach and apricot mentioned before. Some of these are so 

 delicious that whoever tastes them will despise the insipid, 

 watery taste of those we have in England ; and yet such is the 

 plenty of them that they are given to the hogs in great quantities 

 (p. 51)/ 



"In 1741 Sir John Oldmixon writes of Virginia: ^ 



" ' Here is such plenty of peaches that they give them to their 

 hogs ; some of them, called malachotoons, are as big as a lemon 

 and resemble it a little/ 



"In one of his chapters on the 'General State of Penn- 

 sylvania between the years 1760 and 1770,' Proud says : ^ 



"'In some places peaches are so common and plentiful that 

 the country people feed their hogs with them.' 



"In 1795 Winterbotham writes : ^ 



1 "The British Empire in America," by John Oldmixon. Second 

 edition, London, 1741. Vol. 1, pp. 440 and 515. 



2 "The History of New Sweden, or the Settlements on the River 

 Delaware," by Israel Acrelious. Stockholm, 1759. Translated 

 from the Swedish by WiUiam M. Reynolds, D. D., Philadelphia, 

 1876, being Vol. XI of the Memoirs of the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, pp. 151, 152. 



3 "An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical 

 View of the American United States," etc., by W. Winterbotham. 

 London, 1795. Vol. III. 



