PEACH AND THE PEAR. l6l 



load they buy. and the fruit can be stored away in 

 the cars at cost, for them. My best varieties bore no 

 fruit this year, but notwithstanding this, my orchard 

 near Dover, averaged 80 cents per basket, and my old 

 orchard, planted 30 years ago, averaged 8o| cents. I 

 hauled mine to Wyoming this year, as our crop around 

 Dover was almost a complete failure. I should think 

 that the Murderkill orchards averaged their owners 

 more than one dollar per basket. Two brothers applied 

 to bank yesterday, for money to aid them in planting 

 200 acres. The best package is the basket. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 4. 



Question i. 50 Alexander, 50 Troths, 50 Early 

 York, 150 Reeves Favorite, 50 Moore, (or Mixon,) 150 

 Early Crawford, 150 Stump the World, 50 Crawford's 

 Late, 50 Variegated Free, 50 Shipley's Late Red, 50 

 Beer's Smock, 50 Heath, 50 St. John, 50 Susquehanna. 



Question 2. A poor gravelly soil of rolling land 

 will mature trees sooner, give earlier fruit, color better, 

 but dies out sooner. 



Question 3. Twelve years. 



Question 4. From Middletown to Woodside, from 

 bay to bay. 



