
          212

[No. of 
peach trees. - continued]

20
500
175
50
300
? Goodrich, J.
500
40
500
500
100
500
2,500
100
1,100
990
50
1,000
300
800
500
266
300
450
200
300
900
200
300
521
600
200
[underscore]

"Powers, Benjamin F.--Four acres
at Plummerville [near Perrotet's 
Pier] purchased of Mr. Perrotet in
1874, 140 peach trees in excellent
condition.  These trees were planted 
in 1862; they produced forty in
1866; eighty in 1867; two hundred in
1868; six hundred in 1869; and continued
to increase, until 1874, when
they produced 950 baskets of peaches.
Several of the trees measure thirty-six
inches around the trunk. One
tree bore sixteen baskets of peaches.
In 1873 there were 700 baskets of
peaches produced in this orchard,
which netted $1.25 per basket, being
exceedingly fine peaches.  Before
the trees were planted the land,
which is on an elevation commanding
a fine view of Lake Michigan, had 
been cropped heavily with ordinary
farm crops.  It was regarded as exhausted
        