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"A History of New Sweden; or the Settlements
on the River Delaware." By Israel Acrelius,
Stockholm, 1759. Translated from the Swedish
by William M. Reynolds. D.D. Philadelphia, 1876.
being Vol. XI of the Memoirs of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania.

From this book which is more trustworthy
than Campanius, and which was also written
by a Swedish clergyman who spent some years
in America, returning to Sweden in 1756, I quote:

"Peach trees stand within an enclosure
by themselves; grow even in the stoniest places
without culture.  The fruit is the most / delightful
that the mouth can taste, and is
often allowable in fevers.  One kind, called
clingstones, are considered the best; in these
the stones are not loose from the fruit as
in the others.  Many have peach orchards
chiefly for the purpose of feeding their swine,
which are not allowed to run at large.
They first blooom in March the flowers coming
out before the leaves, and are often injured
by the frosts; they are ripe towards the close
of August.  This fruit is regarded as indigenous,
like Maize and tobacco; for as
far as any Indians have been seen in
the interior of the country, these plants
are found to extend." - pp. 151 & 152.
        