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planter of sixteen years experience in that country, who had
likewise the advantage of being overseer or director of the
public plantations, both when they belonged to the company,
and afterwards when they fell to the crown."  This history
was first published in 1758. The <s>planter</s> translation in this preface
says he took great liberties with the text to make it more
<s>reliable</s> readable.

From  Vol. II., Chapter II. of this book, treating "Of the Fruit trees of Louisiana."
p. 17, I quote as follows:

"The natives had doubtless got the peach trees and fig
trees form the English colony of Carolina, before the French
established themselves in Louisiana.  The peaches of the
kind which we call alberges; and contain so much water that
they make a kind of wine of it. * * * Our colonists
plant the peach stones about the end of February, and suffer
the trees to grow exposed to all weathers.  In the third
year they will gather from one tree at least two hundred
peaches, and double that number for six or seven years more,
when the  tree dies <s>irreversably</s> irrecoverably [(Borers ?)]. As new trees are
so easily produced, the loss of the old ones in not in the
least regretted."
        