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three of which were planted with apples, 

 the other three with peaches of various 

 sorts, chiefly distinguished by the names of 

 clink stones and open stones. They are 

 chiefly yellow, white, or scarlet : some are 

 red and white. The best apple is called 

 the new town pippin, which is said to 

 grow the finest in the northern states. 

 Apples will not come to perfection in the 

 southern states, nor will peaches in the 

 northern : the melons are not nearly so good 

 in the northern as in the southern states. 

 They grow luxuriously in Virginia, and 

 excel all the fruit I ever tasted. Great 

 abundance of pine-apples are sold in Bal- 

 timore market, which come from the West 

 Indies, and are retailed at a quarter of a 

 dollar each, but are not so good as the pine- 

 apples raised in gentlemen's hot-houses in 

 England. To return to my own orchard 

 at Orange hill : it being at some distance 

 from the house, (which is the usual manner 

 of planting them the first year,) as soon as 

 the fruit were nearly ripe, having a few 



