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in 1872, 12,000.  In 1880 he had fifty acres--8,000 trees. In
1886, eighty acres.  The net returns from these plantations
are reported to very from $2,000 to $10,000 per annum. Ibid.
p. 273.

"The orchard committee of the State Pomological Society
in 1877 found several peach trees in the orchards of A.S. 
Dyckman, at South Haven, which had been planted seventeen
years since, and which measured thirty-nine inches around the 
trunk, with a spread of branches of thirty feet." Ibid. p. 274.

ALLEGAN COUNTY.

Central part of county.  Soon after 1844 Daniel Foster
planted a small nursery of apple and peach trees in Central
Allegan. Ibid. p. 222.

Most of the early settlers had small seedling peach orchards
of their own planting. Ibib. p. 292.

"S. K. Tanner of Montery, still has a small peach orchard,
mostly of budded trees, which were planted in 1849, and
are yet [when?] fairly productive."  Ibid. p. 292.
[Ask Mr. Tanner]
        