The daily gazette., 1875-07-20
DeldaCdre the Greatest Peach
Orchard of the World.

From the Baltimore SUN.
Preparation for Marketing Peaches.
The prospect of crop of eight or ten
millions of baskets of peaches from the
Delaware and Maryland peninsula has
stimulated the peach growers to find
markets for this vast product. 1t has
been settled that fruit train will be
dispatched every day over the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad to the cities of
the West as far as Cincinnati, Indiana
polls and Chicago. Contracts have been
made for ], ,160 cars for the shipment of
the fruit to New York city and Eastern
cities, and there is besides likelihood
that the American Steamship Company
OF Philadelphia will fit up their vessels
with refrigerators for new peach trade
with Liverpool. 1t is throught that
20, 900 to 80, 600 baskets of peaches may
be transported each trip on these YES
sells, and that the venture will pay.
Middletown, Delaware, will be the
great collecting and distributing point,
where an immense cooling establish
ment has been erected to secure favor.
able and uniform temperature for tenn
porary storage of fruit awaiting tran
sportation. All the Chesapeake bay
landings will also be collecting points
1or the Eastern Shore of Maryland for
the bay and river steamers to Balti-
more, by which hundreds of thousands
OF crates and baskets of fruit will come
to this market for packing or distribu-
tion. The energy of the peach growers
In finding markets for their perishable
crop, utilizing all the modern modes
of quick transportation to distant
points, will be of immense benefit to
the section they represent, which is no
doubt the greatest peach orchard of the
woild. The fruit is earlier and better
than the Jersey fruit, and therefore has
more money in it. Heretofore the
shipments have always been large to
New York and Baltimore for consump-
tion and canning, but there have never
been before in the history of the trade
such indications of an immense and
widespread enterprise and adequate
remuneration as ut present.
[From the Ledger.l
1t is to be hoped that the plan of
shipment OF peaches to England pro-
posed by the Peninsular peach grow
ers, in connection with the American
Steamship Line, may be put in sue
cessful operation in time to avail of
this seasons crop. In brief, the plan
Is to deliver to the American steamers
fresh picked fruit to be transported to
Liverpool in refrigerators, SO that it
will arrive on the other side in fresh
and good condition. The American
peach is esteemed a great luxury in
England, but as it is quickly perisha-
BILE when exposed, the difficulty here
tofore has been to get il across the
ocean before decay set in to destroy
it. Several consignments have been
sent over, but only small fractions of |
them reached market in prime order. |
Hence the trade has involved too much |
If feasible plan can
be got to insure the safe transporta-
ton of peaches, it will not only open
new market for the peach growers of |
the Peninsula, but furnish q new and
profitable branch of trans Atlantic
trade. The American apple export to
England has of late years grown to
very large proportions; now can the
already in use, or any
of them, do as much for
the surplus peach cropP