New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-28
PLETHORA or PEACHES,

If il had been a peach, nova ripe, Juicy
and melting peach instead of the comparatively
uninvting apple, Adams mastication (the
source of all our wOes) would not have been
80 wonderful good peach has all the quail
ties of a good fruit-delicate faver. cooling
moisture, a firm outside covering, and facility
of manipulation. A short crop of peaches
would hardly be SO great a misfortune
as short crop of wheat-except, maybe,
to the grOwers-but it would sill be
felt by householders, restaurant keepers,
msrketmen and the wise who in the
dog days are mostly vegctarians. Reports
of an impending short crop of peaches might
be received with suspicion; but when the
growers themselves tell us that they expect to
have more than they will know what to do with,
their statement de son tort, as the lawyers say,
mast, we suppose, be credited. All statistics
of over six figures are bewildering-we take
them for granted as we do the distance OF a
far-Off planet from the earth; but when it
comes to peaches about as numerous as the
sands of the shore or the leaves Of the forest,
the sense of our limited power of swallowing
is little notifying. The supply will come
quite near to a basket for everybody.
The peach growers of the Maryland and
Delaware Peninsula have done what American
citizens always do when they are bothered
they have held convention. 1t was at Dover,
on the 18th inst. The first thing to be settled
was, How many peaches are there to be this
ycar1 Well at the Convention estimates
fluciuated. Some said 100000 baskets.
Some said 100000 baskets. The Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railway
authorities have settled upon the larger fig
ures, and have made preparations to transport
that quantity. Middlctown, it is said, is the
largest peach-grOwing section OF the Peninsula.
Here, for instance, is Gov. Cochran, who will
ship $4,000 baskets, and Mr.. ShelcrOss, who
will send to market $50, 900 baskets. From this
station, the Railroad Company expects to carry
GOO 900 baskets, demanding 80 cars per diem.
and two engines. The Mt. Pleasant crop is
estimated at SOC, 900 baskets; Dover, 100000.
From the Queen Ann and Kent County Rail-
road the estimate is 100000. Then from
other points, one writer thinks, there will be
additional shipments, 50 that the crop will
come up really to 100000 baskets. How
is this immense production to be made to
pay1 Only, it is said, by opening new
markets. Arrangements will be perfected
for opening route on the North
PENNSYLVANIA, the Lebigl Valley, and other
roads. via Binghamton, thence to Albany,
then by easy communication to Boston. Fruit
can be sent by this route at a cost of 40 cents
per basket. If shipped at o'clock p. m. it
can be delivered in Boston at 1 o'clock on the
following day. Ten cars daily are to be
run to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg. Reading, and
other Pennsylvania points. The route fixed
upon for Boston, it is thought, will
considerably Tighten the New-York market !;
and cold peach houses are spoken of in which
the fruit can be held from one day to six
months, for a market.
All this gives pleasant prospect especially if
the mercury il to fool frequently about the Nine
ties. There is only one other question-What
will become Of all the stones! The druggists
and chemists will find a use for a small part
of the pits some Of the seed will be "re-
"solved to earth again." but how prOdigal
Nature is in her apparent waste!