84 THE PEACH 



me that in a settlement between him and his part- 

 ner of the receipts of the season's crop they divided 

 near $50,000 between them. These net profits from 

 these large orchards seem immense, but smaller 

 growers greatly exceed in the rate of profits, owing 

 to the greater and more economical facility of 

 handling, and the ability of doing it, as everything 

 can be managed with system and economy, and 

 without the loss that occurs from dependence upon 

 others. The encouraging feature of the peach busi- 

 ness is in its almost unlimited extent and ever in- 

 creasing demand, and necessarily so from the un- 

 limited wants of our improving towns and coun- 

 try. Peaches are marketed by the millions of bas- 

 kets, where apples and other fruits are counted 

 only by the thousands. The large peach grower 

 must be a landholder ; and, like the merchant, he 

 has his large aggregate profits, and correspondingly 

 large expenses and losses in the management of 

 business, while the small peach grower, in most 

 cases, in counties contiguous to large cities, would 

 manage the orchard and its products under his own 

 eye from the field to the market, making the best 

 of everything and doubling his profits. The great 

 peach growers of Delaware and Maryland are looked 

 upon as the Wanamakers of the orchards, though 

 with goods not " marked," while the small pro- 

 ducer has his brands for superior quality on the 

 cheek of his ripe, luscious fruit, to be disposed of 

 in a comparatively retail market. The one sells 



