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iently to New York. These could reship in cars, but it 

 would be attended with additional expense and delay, 

 which the higher price might not always justify. The 

 Philadelphia market is somewhat limited, and the ship- 

 ments made thither seldom give as satisfactory returns 

 as those to New York. Of late Baltimore has also be- 

 come an important market, especially for Eastern Shore 

 growers. 



Beyond these cities very few peaches are shipped from 

 the great peach growing centers. But planters are enquir- 

 ing whether they may not do better by seeking out more 

 remote markets, and shipping directly to them. 



This was true in 1870, but is no longer so, for while 

 more peaches are yet sent to New York than any other 

 single point, yet large shipments are made direct to 

 Northern, Eastern, and Western cities, and the trade to 

 New York is tending year by year to a local one. 



CHAPTER XXTTT. 



PBOFIT. 



THE profit of peach culture, either comparatively or 

 absolutely, can only be approximated, and that in a gen- 

 eral way. When we see a man, engaged in any business 

 acquiring more property, improving what he has, and 

 surrounding himself with the luxuries and elegances of 

 life, we certainly conclude that the business is profitable, 

 and that he understands how to manage it. When we see 

 another engaged in the same business working hard, going 

 in debt, selling, it may be, a portion of his patrimony to 

 relieve his present embarrassment) we conclude as certain- 

 ly that his business is unprofitable or he does not under- 

 stand it. So it is in peach culture. Whoever understands 

 it and attends to it well, does well. We know no excep- 



