104: LAEGE PROFIT. 



baskets of Bartletts, and sold them on the premises 

 for $2.50 per peach basket, making $47.50 from a 

 single tree. Under date of August 2d, 1869, Dr. 

 Sylvester, of Lyons, New York, writes to me about 

 the sum realized from forty Louise Bonne de Jersey 

 trees ten years planted. He says : 



" The orchard is on one of those ridges so com- 

 mon in this region, and has an Eastern aspect. 

 These trees occupy four short rows, ten in a row, 

 making forty trees in all, in the orchard. They 

 were planted in 1858, and were ten years old at the 

 time of the crop, which was in the autumn of 1868. 

 The trees had received good cultivation, but have 

 never been highly manured, as the soil, which is a 

 gravelly loam, is sufficiently strong to produce healthy 

 trees with moderate fertilizing. They were planted 

 ten' feet each way (I should now plant 12 or 14), and 

 hence do not occupy but little ground ; allowing for 

 five feet of ground outside the rows, the amount of 

 land is about one-eighth of an acre. The forty trees 

 produced, in 1868, forty bushels of selected pears, 

 which sold in Washington Market, New York, for 

 six ($6) dollars per bushel, average price, or $240 for 

 the one crop, being at the rate of nineteen hundred 

 and twenty dollars per acre. These were not selected 

 rows, but were all together, and all the Louise Bonne 

 de Jersey trees there were in the orchard ; and I am 



