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VAN BUREN COUNTY.

In Van Buren county, Dolphin Morris planted peach pits as early
as 1830 and trees grew there from which live many years.
p. 268. See next statement.

"In 1836 Isaac Barnum brought with him from Cayuga Co.,
N. Y., peach pits from which sprang the first peach trees
grown in the county.  These were all chance seedlings, some
of them of fine quality; one of them, Snow's Orange, had become
a popular variety." Ibid. p. 269.

In 1850 and several successive years, G. Engle of Paw Paw observed
that a few peach trees on high land blossomed freely when
others failed. In 1861 he planted seven hundred trees--Early
Crawford and Snow's Orange--on a ridge of his own farm.  In
1866 he sold his first crop for $2,100.  One hundred in a 
low spot winter killed befor this crop.  The rest yielded
$3,300 in the next sixteen years,--1866-82. Ibid. p. 269.

In 1860 N. H. Bitley planted 500 peach trees on the hills
near Lawton. These bore their first crop in 1866. "During
the next two years--1867 and 1868--several orchards. were
        