82 THE PEACH 



the actual quantity amounted, in the aggregate, to 

 2,000,000 of baskets. In 1872, the whole district, 

 comprising the Eastern Shore of Maryland, mar- 

 keted, 3,500,000 baskets. The late Col. Wilkins, 

 on Chester river, Kent county, Maryland, had 1,350 

 acres in with peach trees, numbering 137,000, pro- 

 ducing in bearing years from $30,000 to $40,000 

 annually. In the State of Michigan peach grow- 

 ing is carried on to a considerable extent, along the 

 shores of the lake, some sixty miles from Chicago, 

 and furnishes the fruit to the city and surrounding 

 towns. It is reported that Mr. A. T. Dykeman, 

 President of the Horticultural Society of the State, 

 in 1873, sold peaches to the amount of $10,000 

 from sixty-five acres, and in 1872 a grower from 

 six acres received $1,700. 



Peaches are grown to a fine profit in Wisconsin, 

 for Chicago. All these western districts, including 

 Ohio, Indiana and other States, complain of the 

 ravages of the yellows, and the Legislature of Wis- 

 . consin has even passed an act to prevent the spread 

 of the disease, and I am informed that the law works 

 well. Thousands of dollars have been invested by 

 individual enterprise in planting and cultivating the 

 pear, and although we hear, in every direction, of 

 its failure in dwarf trees, still the markets seem to 

 be pretty well supplied through the fruit season, 

 yet at low prices, and particularly when it comes 

 in competition with the peach, which, during the 

 past season, was very marked. I noticed in the 



