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" A relation of Maryland" Author unknown,
"Reprinted from the London Edition of 1635, with
a prefatory note and appendix. By Frances L.
Hawks, D.D., LL.D." N.Y. Joseph Sabin, 1865.

From this tract I quote as follows:-
"Although there be not many that do apply
themselves to plant Gardens and Orchards,
yet those that do it, find much profit and
pleasure thereby:  They have Pears, Apples, and
several sorts of Plummes, Peaches in abundance
and as good as those of Italy," p. 28.

"The Founders of Maryland etc."  By Rev.
Edward D. Neill, A.G., Albany, Joel Munsell,
1876.

From a foot note I quote as follows:-
"George Minifie arrived in the year
1623, in the ship Samuel.  His plantation
was between Blunt Point and Jamestown.
De Vries visited in 1633, the James River and
in his journal writes:  'Arrived at Littletown
where Minifie lives. He has a garden
of two acres full of primroses, apple, pear,
and cherry trees, * * * Around the 
house were planted peach trees which
were hardly in bloom.'

"The Dutch Captain says that these
were the first peach trees he saw in
North America." - pp. 52 & 53.

Ex'd [examined] N.J. Archives, 10 vols. Nothing on
peach trees.
        