The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15
Peaches.


On Friday last We visited the peach or
chard Of the Mosier Brothers, in Porter
township, and we can assure our readers that
they need not have the slightest suspicion of
obtaining diseased fruit from that well known
firm. The Brothers, Wells w. and Chas. H.
are residents of our town and well known to
our citizens as honorable, square dealing men,
and their card in package of fruit is COM
plete guarantee that it is sound and all right.
Their orchard, consisting of 2,300 trees, is
pleasantly situated on rich gravelly hillside
about four miles southeast of the village of
Lawton, and is one of the finest locations for
the cultivation of fruit that can be found in
the county. 1t is protected from wind and
storm on the west and north, by thick oak
wood, and, sloping gradually to the south, it
receives the rays of the spring sun, and has
ample atmospheric drainage, which has been
the peach, that most delicious of all the
fruits grown in northern ATTITUDES. Their
orchard was started six years ago, although
large part of it is but four years old, and
healthier. more vigorous and thriftier trees
cannot be found anywhere. They have all
the more noted varieties such as the Alex
anders, Hale's Early, Old Mixons, Shows
Orange Early and Late Crawfords, Hills
Chill, Honest Johns, etc. They are now
shipping about sixty bushels per day, and
they realize two dollars per bushels for the
fruit. AS yet they ship entirely on orders,
and are unable TO fill the orders they receive.
| Their packing room is in their barn, in
which they live during the fruit season.
Wells attends to the shipping of the fruit,
and our townsman j. w. Emery looks after
the picking and packing. There are four
men and as many ladies engaged in the work,
to say nothing of the visitors who are numer-
Gus, but Wells and Mary are royal entertain
ers, and none call upon them without getting
their fill of peaches and pressing invitation
to call again. Their head quarters at the
barn has been facetiously named the Hotel
dc KOsier, and hospitality is dispensed with
an open hand. They estimate their peach
crop at 1900 bushels, and besides this they
have fine vineyard which will yield them
not less than ten tons of grapes, of the Con
cord and Delaware varieties The season of
peaches will last for another month, and
grape harvest will begin next week. We in
tend to "come again. Wells. We can stand
it if you can.
The next day we visited the orchard of
still another prominent fruit grower, Judge
Lawton, of Lawton. Situated as it is in the
midst of the Michigan fruit belt" and Just
in the suburbs of the town, one might ride
many miles without passing a finer location
for the production of peaches. The land is
said to be even higher than Prospect Hill,
and is of rich, gravelly loan. The Judge
is thorough fruit grower, and at oncSre
moves any tree which exhibits symptoms of
the dreaded "yellows,' so that we were highly
gratified at the healthy condition of his or
chard containing nearly 5000 trees. We
found all of the principal varieties represent
ed, and brought away, as n trophy of our
visit, a basket filed with Mountain Rose and
Crawfords, the luscious contents of which
created quite a furore among our Paw Paw
friends who, as the juice trickled from their
finger-tips, spasmodically calculated, 1.-THE
best we've seen this year," The vineyard is
also well worthy of mention consisting OF
, 5000 heavily laden vines, the Delawares be.
ing, without exception, the largest we evei
saw. Should no unforeseen event occur, his
grape crop will be simply immense. We
, shall he around after some of them.