Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-05-05

of orchards. The first of these is that of
Mr.. Gasaway Watkins. Next 10 him is tho
fine farm OF Mr.. Geo. Kaisner. Then comes
tho orchards of Mr.. Isaac Wood. Messrs,
Higgins, j. c. Vandegrift, L. G.. Vandsgrift
Sr., Mr.. Walters, and lastly at Augustine.
the orchard of DIR. j. Il. Alrichs. tho only
orchard i'll New Castle County that produced
anything like a crop last year.
Back from this road, to the north Of 1t. is
situated "a small farm belonging to the hairs
of the late Martin Vandegriif, which IS ouito
historical here, as 1t was the fortunate me-
cuniary result OF a small orchard planted bv
The late MIR. Nahdegriit on his farm. that
awakened the landowners OF this neighbor-
hood 10 a renewed attempt to grow peachss
| say renewed, because at n place only g..
lew miles above Port Peun tho first orcharJ
planted i'll Delaware Tor proflt was sim
| ated. This orchard was the joint venture
OF MIR. Reeves and the late millionaire Of
Philadelphia. Henry RidCeway
Messrs. Reeves ~ ltId9eway S venture proyino
successful, The Messrs. Reynolds commenced the
| cultivation of peach orchards, and in lew yea,s
were the great peach grower of The country Their
| orchards becoming famous both in Now Yorl n,l
| Philadelphia. For about ten Years they vrrr
| very successful, and then then Orchards went Ia
| decay, and all attempts to reurw them proved tn
| tile, and II was thought peaches would not ,eroe
along tho Delaware. And from $50 70 1850 fcv.
| 1t any peaches were grown su this ncirhloth.oa
But small orchard OF 1000 t.rts, planted inv Nj,
Martin Nandccrit, came iItO hrarii, IN Is -
| and from that time until 1861 hc had q cc,t rv,,,
year, aud frequently realized lioit ot I. n,r
basket, aud sometimes lie sold peaches tIo,u H..
orchard fox weeks at timc. t. above a. t,f
basket. y
In 1872, the season Of the last orcp from Lrre
| MIddletown shiHped 10 market 6.1,lC baskets.
1t Is probable that 1lu,UUu will he ,litttrd f., -,
| here Tins season. Mt. Pheasant taur u,ii,s allow,
| shipped :Oi.1lj to NV York and ucrha1s 7utno
| 70 Phadelrhia, making . total Shipment ol :,115
900 baskets shipped III ls,:. From present in-
| dications iOO,ovO baskets may be expected to be
| shipped from that point this wear. From I,,,
Penn and 81. Augustine the prospect, are such ls
20 warrant IN estimate o' l75,uUUir from there An
| these points OF Shipment are IN St. Georges Ia
| township containing about sixty square mn, -
IL the entlic State OF Delaware WAS ulart.L l.,
peach trees, as Is this lIundle one Years croi,
| would yield upward OF 2G,OOO,OOO baskets 81
peaches. And this peninsula, every foot OF wLith h
will grow good peaches, could be made to bro,
ducc IJ,OOO,UOO baskets, so that eversof TIN, ,i,
cious fruit need have no fear that there ygl be any
scarcity
The peach growers OF this seclion, as a class
are intelligent and well educated men, a. il j.
very evident that no such business a. Ieacl -
growing could be conducted hy any but inteln-
gent men. Sometimes they find HAT their CON =
5 mission merchants do not understand this. and
look n!Ou the peach growers % country pLlnt.
{ klns, AID treat them accordingly. \ few eai :
since quite number Of the n,ust extensive. a, :,
| nOst Ht tlIiScut Vi tue growers concluded TO Scnu
= | their fruit 10 certain Commission man hut Al
: the end ot the season there vas some ,ltecrepan.
cy, growing out OF the loss OF baskets and suue
: OF the growers waited ON the Combustion met.
n cbant-who Is very worthy man, and pretl,
l. generally esteemed as hC.iest-and II was sooI
1t found that the difficulty arose from impelfec
l. bookkeeping. However, this did not SATISFY tht
. commlsslon merchant. and he wrote TO his apeu,
n that he dad not propose TO be instructed by a Io
e oil ignorant country This letter fel into the
- hands OF one the parties, who Inn ledialely tool
J, some copies OF II and pes'ed them arouud th,
e country, and that erdeI the com1ni. sion mer
d chants busuess III that section Astne leadipf
one OF these Ignorant eountrymen" was Dels
:, wares Representative IN Congress, the Drlawar
!. cans did not Ike il.
y lhis, think, Is eHough for one writing.
-s may 10 the future, furnish you with more iniol
O. nation from the peach district. l. -