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an account of methods-- not different from those now followed
in Maryland and Delaware, i.e. "unpeached" ground,
cultivation with corn, etc., searching for boreres in spring,
summer and autumn.]  "With this management, a peach orchard
near a market, or on navigable water, will be a profitable
application of land, but no precaution will ensure its duration
beyond two, or three, or at the utmost four years, [bearing
years, he probably means."] If it succeeds even for this
short time, with a judicious selection of kinds, the product
will amply remunerate the trouble and expense, beyond any
other mode of employing the land in this country.

"The proper soil for a peach orchard, is a rich sandy
loam; I have no recollection of a very productive one on very
stiff, or cold land."--"A View of the Cultivation of Fruit
Trees, etc. By Wm. Coxe, Esq., of Burlington, N. J. Philadelphia,
Nov. 1, 1817. Published by M . Carey & Son. pp. 216-17.

Peaches grow vigorously in New South Wales.-- Henry Phillips.

"Father Hennepin x x  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
        