46 THE PEACH 



With fair ground, as to quality, it comes into bear- 

 ing lightly the third year, if favorable, and in the 

 fourth year I have uniformly, if not cut off by late 

 frosts, had full crops. 



My first planting of 1,000 trees produced a full 

 crop the fourth year, and attracted a great deal of 

 interest from a doubting community for miles 

 around, disarming all the threadbare arguments 

 that peaches could not be raised in Chester county. 

 There was scarcely a year in which the crop en- 

 tirely failed, and a partial crop often brings more 

 than a full one. In such years peaches are scarce, 

 and the market prices are correspondingly higher. 

 I have had peaches to retail in the Philadelphia 

 market as high as seventy-five cents per dozen, di- 

 rect from my orchards, and they have often since 

 brought higher prices from Chester county or- 

 chards. Those who have read Edwin Morris' ad- 

 mirable little book, entitled " Ten Acres Enough," 

 will recollect that he tells us of his ten old peach 

 trees in his garden, which, after supplying the fam- 

 ily with fruit for the season, realized sixty to sev- 

 enty dollars for the surplus fruit sent to market. 



