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"The peach crop of this year [1848] has been very large. x x The
Delaware crop is estimated by our intelligent correspondent at
500,000 bushels [baskets?]" p. 164, Rep. Com. of Patents (Agric.)
1848.  See also p. 465 where the correspondent himself,  'J. Jones',
says, "baskets and that the Reybolds' must be credited with 125,000
baskets.

"Peaches were very abundant in Del., N. J. and Pa. but there
were very few in the region bordering on the lakes [in 1865]." p. 4.
Appleton's Annual, 1863.

Peach crop was deficient except in West and South in 1868.
Ibid., 1868.

"Peaches were very plentiful." Ib. p. 6., 1869.

"Peaches were not abundant nor of very good quality." Ib.,
p. 12., 1873.

"Peach crop was below the average especially in Md. and Del.
[in 1874]." p. 7. Ib. 1874.

P. were abundant in 1875. Ib. p. 9., 1875.

De Candolle thins the peach originated in China, Appleton's
Cyclop. Art. "Peach" Cf. also Darwin's Plants and Animals under
Domestication.

According to Geo. Thurbur ("Peach" in Appleton's Cy.) there
were in 1875 peach trees in Va. 70 yrs. old.

"In California the production [of peaches] is immennse."
Thurbur, Ib. 1875.
        