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many instances of these trees bearing amply 

 when they have been from forty to sixty years 

 old. These trees generally yield a crop, when 

 younger ones fail. 



Father Hennepin, a religious missionary, 

 who first described the regions of Louisiana 

 in his voyage down the Mississippi, gives 

 an account of the numerous peach-trees 

 which he observed in every direction in that 

 part of America ; and as the latitude is the 

 same as that part of Asia, of which these 

 trees are the natural production, there can 

 be no doubt but they are indigenous to 

 Louisiana as well as to Persia, although in 

 many parts of America the peach is regarded 

 as a foreign fruit, it having been introduced 

 from Europe before Louisiana had been 

 explored. 



This fruit is now cultivated with such suc- 

 cess in some parts of North America, that it 

 is not uncommon to see orchards containing 

 1,000 standard peach-trees, which are so pro- 

 ductive, that the fruit is used to fatten swine: 

 from a single orchard have been procured, 

 after the pulp is fermented and distilled, 100 

 barrels of peach brandy. 



Peaches are forced with considerable suc- 

 cess. These of necessity must bear a high 

 price in the market, so long as glass continues 



