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BERRIEN COUNTY.

About 1775 Mr. Burnett established a trading house near
the mouth of the St. Joseph river--D. A. Winslow.  History of
St. Joseph. 1869. "In the orchard set out by Mr. Burnett,
he set several peach trees, and they were still there in 1829
and for several years subsequent; but being on interval land
they were subsequently killed, in a season of extraordinary
high water.  There is now (1869) a peach tree in the old
orchard just south of Hickory creek on the Niles road, that
is over thirty years old; and last year it bore a fair crop
of fruit; yet the tree has had no special care for many years.
There were peach tres[trees] scattered through the country prior to
the year 1848 but they were all seedlings.  Prior to this
date is is not known that there was a budded tree in the count."
Winslow. p. 47. Lyon p. 236.
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[See p. 146]

"B. C. Hoyt, Esq., banker, of St. Joseph, one of the
oldest inhabitants, coming here ih[in] 1829, states that he found
a seedling peach planted by old William Burnett who had been
dead over twenty years.  That tree lived and bore fruit
for ten of more years thereafter.  The first peaches ever
sent to the Chicago market came 'from Mr. Hoyt's garden in 
1839.  x x  They were seedlings.:- L. J. Merchant. Lyon p. 237.
        