IN turning to what, under more favorable cir- 

 cumstances than the preceding, just detailed, would 

 be called " the dark side of the picture," I pro- 

 ceed to a recital of the difficulties encountered in 

 the course of our management of the orchards re- 

 ferred to. I am most happy to say that the great- 

 est, and the only one that caused the most anxiety r 

 and for which I received the most condolence, arose 

 from the trouble of disposing of my large crops of 

 peaches, without glutting the surrounding markets,, 

 to the reduction of generous prices. Domestic mar- 

 kets pay better than those more distant, and par- 

 ticularly in cities, where competition is found in 

 inferior fruit ; but I console myself that in all these 

 gluts, and excesses beyond demand, I had my re- 

 ward in the removal of the old notion that Eastern 

 Pennsylvania was not adapted to peach growing. 

 From some cause or other that old scourge, the 

 "yellows," was not so formidable an enemy as I 

 had expected to have met, considering the remon- 

 strances and persistent advice which my friends 

 and neighbors had volunteered, and although this 

 advice, so often rejected, may have had its impres- 



