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I sold them, I made profit each day on thirty 

 pecks of peaches two shillings and nine 

 pence : the reader may plainly see that 

 there could not be any thing done better. 

 This shews in this part of the work where 

 I am on the Eastern Shore, one hundred 

 miles and upwards from market, that the 

 reader will be convinced the cherries and 

 peaches pay the best for hogs. Now we 

 will come to the apples for the winter; as to 

 the summer fruit, pears, plums, &c. they 

 raise all those things here ; but pear or 

 plum trees will not produce fruit at all in 

 many parts of America, nor are they worthy 

 of bearing the name here, and are only fit 

 for hogs, as they have no flavour of the fruit 

 in England, although of the same kind: 

 raspberries are very inferior, but currants 

 equally good as in England : as to ripe 

 gooseberries, nectarines, or apricots, there 

 can be no such thing, for they all dwindle 

 away before they grow ripe. Now the 

 \vinterapplessellverywell. I have sold 

 two bushels and a half of apples after 



