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(1870) the peach crop promises to be the largest ever raised
there.--Tilton's Journal of Hort. Boston, 1870. p.107.

[wrong note]
"The first really great Delaware orchard was planted in
1838 by Jacob Ridgeway, the Philadelphia millionaire.  Other
large ones were soon established. About this time, a small
orchard of forty acres realized a clear profit of $9,000 from
a single crop,--about ten times more than the land was worth."
--Edmund Morris, of Burlington, N.J., Tilton's Jour. of Hort.
1870. p. 72.

Peach orchards of California.--The Alta is authority for
the statement that California has 800,000 peach trees. Tilton's
Journal of Hort. 1870, p. 48.

"Mr. Shallcross, near Middletown, Del., owns the largest
peach orchard in the world [1874]. Last year he shipped to
New York 125,000 baskets of fruit" x x Mr. S's orchard
"covers an extent of more than 1,000 acres on which is growing more than 100,000 trees.  The land on
which Mr. S's trees are planted is worth $150,000."--The Horticulturist,
etc. New York, 1874. p. 287.
        