
          159

of Laketown, Saugatuck, and Ganges more than 200,000 peach
trees will be planted the coming spring. and ther seems to
be as much eagerness to extend the area of orchard as ever.
Ibid. p. 300.

KENT COUNTY.

In 1855, J. D. Alger planted peach pits south of Grand
Rapids.  The trees lived and bore well for many years.

"The peach crop is not as certaian as upon the lake shore,
but in 1883 more than 25,000 bushels were marketed from the
orchards about Grand Rapids.  All the peach orchards are on
elevated locations. x x x Plantations are rapidly increasing.
The profits are large but skill is required to
secure them.  The yellows has appeared in several orchards,
but has not so far become a serious injury."  C. W. Garfield
in Brief of Hort. Ibid. p. 324.

At Lowell, one peach orchard of 1,000 trees planted in
1880, has yielded $400 to $1,000 annually for some years.
The peach orchard of the writer [Husted?] twenty-five acres,
produced in 1883 a net return of $2,450. Ibid. p. 325.
        