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nature of a rush, and very tough like wirer 



it grows about two or three inches long (ths 



longest in a thin spiring manner, with the 



upper end like a small darning-needle, from 



five to six inches asunder), and of a very 



poor nature. It never grows long enough 



or has sufficient substance for mowing. But 



it would astonish a stranger to see the 



quantity of fruit in these parts, which makes 



the country to look beautiful twice a- year 



when the trees are in blossom, and when the 



fruit is on the trees ripe. But the fruit is 



chiefly for the use of hogs, and can be 



applied to no better purpose. 



On my farm at Orange-Hill, only three 

 miles from Baltimore, the last year I was 

 there, I sold all my peaches to two men at 

 four pence per peck, and let them have a 

 cart and a horse to take them into the city 

 to sell, knowing I had only made four 

 pence per peck on the average the year be- 

 fore, and gathered them myself. These men 

 agreed to pick them, and feed the horse in? 

 town- at their expence. It was the opinion o 



