
          157

Lake Shore Region of Allegan County.  "When the first
white people came to this section, about 1835, there was a
small peach orchard, on 'Peach Orchard Point', on the Kalamazaoo
river, supposed to have been planted by French traders."
Ibid. p. 296.

Some after 1840 "commenced the planting of seedling peches."
Ibid. p. 297.

In 1864, McCormick and V. R. Wadsworth planted peach orchards
on a large scale. Ibid. p. 297.

In 1872, farmers generally turned their attention to
fruit-growing, a large share of which was peaches. Ibid.
p. 297.

"Almst every farmer now [1887] has a peach orchard,
varying in number of trees from a few hundred to five and
even ten thousand."

Before the war (1860) small boats carried from Saugatuck small loads of
peaches, half grown and "fuzzy" to sell in the more northern
markets among the lumbermen." Ibid. p. 297.
        