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wild and fat. They grow chiefly rye, wheat, barley, oats, 
buckwheat, corn, flax, hemp, fruit, cabbage and turnips. They 
also have good cattle, fast horses, and many bees." 
"Hogs and poultry, especially turkeys, are raised by almost 
everybody. In this country, the chickens are not put in 
houses by night, nor are they looked after; but they sit 
summer and winter upon the trees near the houses; every 
evening many a tree is so full of chickens that the boughs 
bend beneath them. The poultry is in no danger from beasts 
of prey, because every plantation owner has a big dog, if not 
more, at large around the house." "Peach and cherry trees 
many a farmer plants in whole avenues from one plantation 
to the other, and they yield an abundant crop. One sort of 
peaches are inside and outside red as large as a lemon, but 
round and smooth, and they are ripe about St. Bartholomew's 
Day" (August twenty- fourth) . "Again there are some waxen 
yellow, red streaked, and green as grass. 
"There is also a sort called clingstones; they are 
sweet when they are ripe; they are often preserved before 
they are quite ripe, like cucumbers. Pears there are but few, 
and damsons none, because they will not thrive, and are often 
spoiled by the mildew." "In Pennsylvania, as throughout 
North America, from Acadia to Mexico, plenty of wild 
black and white vines may be seen, which grow in the forests 
around the oak trees and along the hedges. Many a vine 
is at the bottom as thick as a tree, and it often is so full of 
grapes that the boughs of the trees bend beneath them. 
"In the blossom time the grapes have a very strong 
odor, and in October they are ripe. They make some wine 
of them, but it costs much sugar. Large quantities of grapes 
are taken to the markets of Philadelphia. Such grapes would 
be much better if the vines were cut as in Europe, but as the 
people live too far apart, and as the wild animals and birds 
would do much injury to the vines, there will be no vine 
growing for a long time to come." 
Mittelberger of course wrote in a general way of the 
country lying between Germantown and Trappe, and while 
