New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-28
The DELAWARE PEACH CROP.

PROSPECTS OF THE SEASON. PROBABLE YIELD OF
MILLION BAsKETs-THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES.
[FRoA AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBUkEl
DOVER Del, July A.-The season is now
far advanced that speak with some confidence
OF the peach crop OF the peninsula. The Winter was
mild and the early Spring the prospect for full crop
was excellent. But the mild Winter closely fol-
lowed by a very late. cold Spring The weather was
even colder in March and April than 1t had been in
January and February, and the blossoms which had
started in the wake OF Winter were caught and de-
sroyed in the wane OF Spring BY the 1st OF May the
cror which overestimated at 100000 baskets.
reduced TO 1000 000 some persons thought 1t even
less than that. But this not all. 1t found
examination that nearly all that escaped were confined
TO a few varieties and principally Hales Early, the
earliest but least valuable Of all the varieties This fall
ing off to onesxth Of what had been expected struck
CONSERVATION into the hearts OF the growers and 1t
not unnatural that at their regular juno meeting they
should underestimate what was left. And this they
did by about onehalf, giving it out at half million
less when IL is almost certain to be million.
OF the million baskets. now pretty well assured, one
hair will be Hales, and nearly all these will go into
market within the next two weeks or by the 10th Of
August After that the supply from the peninsula VIII
from this place made two days 1t was only as
crates, but it will gradually increase every day
The Haes are our earliest but poorest peaches and 10
ordinary seasons, would not be very highly valued
III, "a
small they are likely be greatly In demand. and to
bring good prices Their greatest fault is that they do
rVen uniformly, but on one side first, and then on
another Beside this they rot readily, and few warm
rains misty mornings, while rpenlng, may destroy
whole After the Hales there Will be few
TFOths and Early YOrks. These both superior ~
quality Haes but the quantity Will be small III
deed and IN view Of the demand, will be nothing
After these are gone there will be none worth Daning
until the stumps come THIS is indeed noble peach,
but the quantity will be even less than the last crop aud
will not be felt the market After the Stumps there
will be none TIL the last OF September when our
last peach, the Smock, ill., This is large, hfm
yellow peach good for canning but not so good for eat
ing as it Is little With the SmOck will close the
season OF 1874 for Delaware and Maryland peaches
has disappointed the hopes and expectations
OF many grower who has hundreds OF acres aud thou
sands OF dollars devoted 10 this branch Of agricultural
Industry. -,
OF tie meager supply, Sussex County will give
scarcely ~ ttne, while the counties OF Kent and New
Castle will furnish about equal proportion OF the
residue The OF this Is that IN Sussex the lands
are lighter, and consequently earlier THIS, ana half
degrees remove further south forced the buds out
week or days and they Jared worse for the
late spring fross Kent would have Jared worse than
as lands south. and lighter, but she
has large proportion OF Hales, and thu, Is not cut
short What the prices Will be In the city Is
too TO say but 70 per Daskei, delivered NJ Tue
depot here, is freely offered