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"Of the immense amount of the peach business in New York we
have already spoken.  A single orchard (the Reybolds' in
Delaware) supplied us during the month of August alone with
63,334 baskets [a basket is a short half bushel] and in September,
probably more than half as many,--making about 100,000
baskets from them alone. They have under yield 1,090 acres
of ground, containing 117,720 trees.  They send their fruit
directly here by steamboat, and are making arrangements to
supply Boston next year in the same way."  New York Tribune.
Quoted in Niles Register, Oct. 25, 1845. p. 128.

"Peach trade of Delaware.--Major Reybold and four of his
sons sent off in one day 5,420 (five thousand four hundred
and twenty) baskets of peaches, and up to the first of September,
Major R. had from his own orchards sent off 16,000
baskets.  By the first of September the several members of
Major R's family had sent away upwards of 50,000 baskets."
Niles' Register, Jan. 24, 1846. p. 332.

The following item, probably an overstatement, is from
Niles' Register, 1842, Baltimore, Md., p. 416:

"From the peach orchard owned by Jacob Ridgeway, near
        