
          136

Compare Transactions of West Jersey Fruit Growers Association.
1864 and later years. (pamphlet)  This report says
"Twenty-five or thirty years ago peaches were grown in this
locality [ The report is apparently for four townships
Burlington twp., etc.--Moorestown, Cinnaminson, etc.] with but 
little care or cost, but a change came over them, and for
many years scarcely any could be produced.  Many trees that
were planted out died without bearing any fruit; indeed it
was thought to be an entire waste of labor to plant peach
trees.  But there seems resaon [reason] to believe that they are 
again becoming a surer crop, and many are planting out new orchards
[1864]."  Wm. Parry was Secy. of the Association.
C. & C. Gent. 1865. p. 305.

Henry T. Williams, office New York Independent, in C. & C.
Gent. July, 1868, p. 14, is authority for the following statements
relative to profits of peach growing in Delaware:--
The peach shipments from Delaware in 1867 were:

By Railroad, - - 1,108,000 baskets.
By water, - - 750,000 baskets.
[underscore]
Total, - - 1,858,000 baskets.
        