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Explanation of Abbreviations. — Colour — y yellow ; r red j w white. Size 

 — L large; m medium. 



The culture of the Peach is in this 

 country so simple, and generally un- 

 derstood, that it would seem scarcely 

 necessary to occupy space with direc- 

 tions on that subject. 



The following remarks are from a 

 paper by Dr. Thompson of Wilmington, 

 Delaware, published in the Farmer's 

 Cabinet of Philadelphia, and may excite 

 surprise in some quarters by its details 

 of the extent to which the Peach trade 

 has arrived. 



"To Mr. Isaac Reeves, a native of 

 New Jersey, is tlie whole credit due of 

 first introducing on a large scale the 

 culture of the inoculated peach tree 

 into Delaware. The late Mr, Jacob 

 Ridtjway, of Philadelphia, owning a 

 farm near Delaware City, on the Chesa- 

 peake and Delaware canal, was induced 

 by Mr. Reeves to become his partner, 

 and upon this property, in the spring of 



1S32, they set out the first twenty acres 

 of inoculated peach trees ever planted 

 in this State, with the view of supplying 

 the Philadelphia market. They rapidly 

 extended their plantation to about one 

 hundred and twenty acres, were emi- 

 nently successful, and one year — the 

 very best season they ever had — their 

 gross income from the sales of fruit was 

 some sixteen thousand dollars. Peaches 

 then commanded from one dollar twen- 

 ty-five cents to three dollars per basket, 

 containing about three pecks. In the 

 spring of IS36, the late Mr. Manuel 

 Eyre and myself followed suit upon our 

 ' Union Farm,' midway between Wil- 

 mington and Newcastle on the Delaware 

 river, to about the extent of one hun- 

 dred and forty acres. In a year or two 

 afterwards, Mr. Philip Reybold & Sons 

 went into the business — then a host of 

 others, until now, from twenty-five 



