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judgment to put some ashes around the other trees of the orchard."

"Travels into North America." By Peter Kalm.  Translated
into English by John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. 3 Vols.
Warrington, Printed by William Eyres. 1770.

From Vol. I. of this most interesting book I quote as
follows relative to peaches in America in the middle of the
18th century:

Philadelphia is in latitude 39° 50'. It was founded by
Wm. Penn in 1682 or 1683. p. 32.

Under date of Sept. 18, 1748, writing from Philadelphia
about a visit to Mr. Bartram's country seat, four English
miles south of Philadelphia, Kalm says:

"Every countryman, even a common peasant, has commonly
an orchard near his house, in which all sorts of fruits,
such as peaches, apples, pears, cherries, and others are in
plenty.  The peaches are now almost ripe.  They are rare
in Europe, particularly in Sweden, for in that country hardly
any people beside the rich taste them.  But here every
countryman had an orchard full of peach trees, which were
covered with such quantities of fruit, that we could scarcely
        