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us some specimens are of the finest kind, large and of delicious
flavor.  Two schooners are constantly employed in transporting
the fruit to the Philadelphia and New York markets; where, we
understand it meets with ready sale at $3, $4, & $5 per basket.
It is estimated that this peach crop will yield a profit during the
present year of $20,000.  We add to this statement that there is
no part of our country which is more favorable to the production
of this delicious fruit than the vicinity of Delaware city, and
whole district of country lying along the western shore of the
Delaware and extending from Christiana down to Bombay Hook" [The
very region from which yellows had in 1887 about driven out the
peach].- Quoted from Wilmington, (Del) Journal in Ruffin's 
Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Va. 1837 (Dec), p. 459.

"We are happy to learn from Del., now becoming celebrated for 
its fine peaches that although the cold weather and frosts have
been most trying on the young fruit, and much of it is injured that
there is yet enough spared to promise a fine crop if no future
frost should occur to nip the tender blossoms just bursting  from
the bud. The great success of Messrs. Ridgeway and Reeves, near
Delaware city  ** * will soon be followed by other equally enterprising
gentlemen of Del. and this city [Phila.] who have gone largely
into the business.
        