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the exegencies of tobacco culture led to a rapid clearing
away of the primeval forests, followed by speedy exhaustion
of the soils first in cultivation, and the orchards were
planted on lands about the houses which would no longer produce
profitable crops of tobacco.  The apples, however, were
of an inferior sort, 'long stems' for summer apples, 'red
spreaks' for winter." (cf. also Tyson's Memoir of the Ellicotts.)
p. 6, Vol. I. of J. Thomas Scharf's History of Maryland,
Baltimore, 1879.

In a foot note Mr. Scharf also quotes from Hammond as
follows: [For Reprint of Hammond's tract See Forces Hist.
Tracts. Vol. 3. Washington, D.C. 1844]

"Hammond in his Leah and Rachel, A.D., 1656, p. 9 says:
'Orchards innumerable were planted', and again, p. 13,
he says: 'The country is full of gallant orchards, and the
fruit generally more luscious and delightful than here [England],
witness the peach and quince, the latter may be eaten
raw savorily, the former differs and as much exceeds ours as
the best relished apple we have doth the crabb, and of both most
excellent an comfortable drinks are made'." Ibid. p. 6.

"A new and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South
Carolina and Georgia."  London, 1733.  Said to be by General

        