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year ; one of five acres, thirteen hundred dollars ; one of twenty acres yielding 

 fruit to the amount of forty-three hundred dollars annually ; and one of five 

 acres also where the income from the peaches is greater than from the rest of 

 the entire farm of three hundred and fifty acres. 



At Milford, between eight and nine thousand dollars have been cleared in 

 three seasons from twenty-five hundred trees. 



Orchards in the two lower counties range from five thousand to twenty thou- 

 sand trees ; and one gentleman in Sussex County put out sixty thousand the last 

 season. It is generally estimated that peaches will average at least a dollar per 

 tree profit. 



Strawberries and all kinds of berries promise to be a most prolific and profit- 

 able crop. Last spring, strawberries, shipped in small quantities to New York, 

 brought a dollar and twenty-five cents and a dollar per quart. The price grad- 

 ually declined to seventy-five cents ; then to fifty cents ; and forty cents was 

 the lowest price obtained ; the last berries bringing the same prices which the 

 earliest from Hammonton obtained. 



From one-third of an acre at Dover, there were sold, net, the handsome little 

 value of six hundred and eighty dollars. Three acres yielded two thousand 

 dollars over all expenses. Four acres at Smyrna brought four thousand dollars, 

 the purchaser doing his own picking. At MilforJ, four and a half acres yielded, 

 one year, twenty-eight hundred dollars ; another, three thousand. 



The secret of these prices is in their good condition. Pickers can pick till 

 three or five o'clock, afternoon ; put their fruit on an express-train, and it is in 

 Washington market before six the ne.xt morning, sweet, fresh, and uninjured. 

 It is safe to say, for a series of years to come, twenty-five cents per quart will 

 be as low as prices will go. With good cultivation, five hundred and a thousand 

 dollars per acre will be common results for Delaware. 



Currants and gooseberries have not been tried on a large scale ; but they 

 thrive splendidly wherever grown in gardens. I think either will be a success, 

 and give munificent returns. 



Cherries are exceedingly early. From a single young Morello, eight dollars' 

 worth have been taken. No disease has yet afflicted this tree here. 



Apricots and plums will pay to raise, and hire a man to do nothing else but 

 pick over the trees every day to keep them free from disease or insects. 



Mr. James Lord of Camden, in 1867, had a small apricot-tree, about six years 

 old, that bore four bushels of apricots. The first bushel was sent to a commis- 

 sion-merchant of New York, who gave him a dollar per quart. Had the entire 

 fruit been carefully picked and marketed, the tree would have yielded a hundred 

 and twenty-eight dollars. 



The Concord and Hartford Prolific are the only grapes that will succeed. 

 All others are failures. 



Extraordinary results are accomplished in vegetables. One grower told the 

 writer, that from three-fourths of an acre, without jnanure, he had taken two hun- 

 dred and seventy-five bushels of Irish potatoes. Another planted Irish potatoes 

 after spring-frosts, gathered the ripe tubers in June, planted the same ground to 

 cabbage, and gathered the crop before frost came again in the fall. 



