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"There was but little demand for peaches from without the
county prior to 1867 and 1868, but about this time the market
at Chicago, for this fruit began to attract attention, and
farmers began the planting of peach orchards with reference
to marketing the product abroad." Ibid. p.292.

Quite a good many men planted orchards of 100; 500; 1,600;
3,000; and 4,000 trres [trees] in the seventies. Ibid. p. 292.

In 1874 a peach nursery was begun in Allegan and continues.
Ibid. p. 292. La Fleur also began a general nursery in
1875.

"One man received $1,000 for the peaches on less than
four acres, without [?] the trouble of picking [?] [Mr. Lay's orchard] and marketing them.
The sales by another person from an orchard of ten acres
amounted to $4,700." Allegan Journal on crop of 1879. Ibid.
p. 293.

Eastern Allegan.  "In 1864 or '65 Jonathan Russel planted
fifty peach trees, all of which are now living except one.

* * * The varieties planted were Crawfords, Snow's Orange
        