Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-08-27
From the Times Of F.day.
the PEACH cRop
"nore they Come from and n what
V"antities--prospects for the
futuro--1he Prices

,,,d,. raacnes mere, there and everywhere. No
"'attcr winch way VIZ turn, beaches n.at n,,, /
gazr ol the stands along thu sidewalks in
.he .n 'rult store windows, and on the trucks Of
VI. 'fcehsrM ~ vfh'rrs-evrrywhrrr we find
En,,n,r,. luz market IS full Of them, and in
Countiy row, ~ Washington Market. the
peaches We're $" plenty that they were rolling
au"u, , IN ,'t roadway, totally disregarded ex
cept oy the little nrchins who visit tLe mar.
ht' "'rr'N ,"r what they can pick M. With
Sarn supply 1t is no wonder that the fru;t
rnraP. ah', There Is every prospect that it
w.. M,,' y" W. cheaper, for each day increases
ne supply AS the different varieties reach the
Ncw York markrt The first supply was
pr'nc,paliy from Virginia. few coming from
N"rtn at"'lnl, and these were brought to
New "rk 10y the od Dominion steamship
,'hr' rom Norfolk This supply is now rx-
ia'isled, hut DARN" the season about tl5. 900
m'sh',s ~, a'"i lo,"" crates found their way to
orally III bad condition, owing to Inc rain,
ana AZ. "ther a'lses, and had to lr sold as low Al
my cents per harket, some of the better class
however, realizing as high as t2 Taking n
general average Of the prices obtained. thr
virginia crop may he estimated to have real
yea at wholesale about $50. .0OO although.
taxing The ordinary run Of fruit in basket
there were fully four and "a half millions OF
peaches received from tins region of country
ne irut now III the market IS from the Stat. 8
"f Detaw 're and Maryland At first it had been
estimated that there would not be- more than hal,
crop as an below Seaford was in ha condition
but from the ten or twelve stations Of the Penn
svvania railroad on tins side Of Seaford there bas
b'en so plentiful supply that ut least two thirds
ot crop has been ohtainel. Since July 80 there
mas heeh d daily average arrival OF 30 cars, bring
ns ooo baskets each. or over 1000, 900 peaches. =
iha arrivals daily now 1900 ba *, T., and one
| dav dulIrS the past week reached as high as -,
| HDD DASkr y nearly 10 nOD Tai
| the daily average. over l5O,O0O, 600 Of peach-
nave reached TINS market from these two States II
little over three weeks. The prices for tins ciol
have. ct conr'e varied according to quality mn,
r"ndition ranging from thirty cents to $l?j pr
basket. As Il general thing the quality has bee,
good. but the "Crawf.rds" a delicious fruit, hav
generally been 81 soft that. to use the marke
term they would often "melt' before they cou
be sold ut II fair price. The 'Oti Mixon's" ar
now coming III, and, so far. are in better condtio
Tor shipmen,, thus reventing them from becom
ing great drug on the market The aygregat
amount realized by these sales is about 81 900 90,
The advance crop Of the New Jersey peaches h3
arrived from Morrstown and Monmouth count,
Inc hrst supply was very poor. and harely realize
twenty cents per basket, that price reigning du
ing the whole Of the week before last. An III
, provemeht IN both quality AMI price was observe
during the past week, and fair samples now res,
we from tiiy to sixty cents per basket. The pro
pect IN that there will be a full crop from Il
state OF New Jersey, Ms every advice from II
peach-erowIng districts gives indications to tn
> effect. Thus iar about IA quarter of a million ba
l kets have reached the Market or about forty IN
hons OF peaches, realizing at wholesale, about 81
ty thousand dollars Only u few peaches ha
been received from the upper p,lt OF this Stai
: but there is every prospect of bountlful suppl
Although the quality Of the New York peach q,
: not III any way be compared with that Of /
Southern. still it is expected they will meet wi
g ready market, aud realize fair prices, as the III
g orlty of their rivals will have Disappeared ire
5 the field when they come III.