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baskets of Bartletts, and sold them on the premises 
for $2.50 per peach basket, making $47.50 from a 
single tree. Under date of August 2d, 1869, Dr. 
Sylvester, of Lyons, New York, writes to me about 
the sum realized from forty Louise Bonne de Jersey 
trees ten years planted. Le says: 
“The orchard is on one of those ridges so com- 
mon in this region, and has an Eastern aspect, 
These trees oceupy four short rows, ten in a row, 
making forty trees in all, in the orchard. They 
were planted in 1858, and were ten years old at the 
time of the crop, which was in the autumn of 1868. 
The trees had received good cultivation, but have 
never been highly manured, as the soil, which is a 
gravelly loam, is sufficiently strong to produce healthy 
trees with moderate fertilizing. They were planted 
ten feet each way (I should now plant 12 or 14), and 
hence do not occupy but little ground; allowing for 
five feet of ground outside the ruws, the amount of 
land is about one-eighth of an acre. The forty trees 
produced, in 1868, forty bushels of selected pears, 
which sold in Washington Market, New York, for 
six ($6) dollars per bushel, average price, or $240 for 
the one crop, being at the rate of nineteen hundred 
and twenty dollars per acre. These were not selected 
rows, but were all together, and all the Louise Bonne 
de Jersey trees there were in the orchard; and I am 
