Evening journal., 1906-08-24
THESE PEACHES
ARE BEAUTIES
Harry Mcdaniel, Kent COun-
ty Grower, Believes Fruit
EXCeIS CaliIOrnia'S
SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION
speeIal % rhe rvenIng Journa!


DOVER. Aug. 24.-An Evening
Journal representative saw, in his
now famous peach orchard, six miles
from Dover, Harry Mcdaniel. the
Dover druggist who has shown to the
world that Delaware can vie with
California and even eclipse the bear
state in growing peaches-peaches as
large as baseballs and as luscious as
they look.
While a crowd surrounded Mr.. Nc
Daniels windows In Dover and offered
as high as ten cents apiece for the
exhibition Elbertas Mr.. Mcdaniel was
In his orchard Of 5000 bearing trees,
/ bareheaded and bare-armed, and sup
erintending his small army Of pickers
even picking. himself.
Il attribute Il all to Mr.. McDaniers
perseverance and pluck" said DR.. 4.
O. Clements of Dover, while admirng
the fine fruit, himself the owner Of a
fruit farm. "Mr Mcdaniel, beside
putting his individuality into peach
culture and determining that Delaware
could outdo California. has preached
and vigorously practiced what all
persons who become the salt Of the
earth by producing something, that
you cannot do It by giving orders-but
only by being there and doing it your
self.
THE California method of trimming
has been foremost In the various steps
for successful peach-growing put into
practice in the Mcdaniel orchard.
knew it because / tried it in my own
orchard and where ! trimmed there are
the vigorous peaches. but where I let
it go, the fruit is over-bearing and is
small and of inferior taste The Cali
foIna idea is that dropping or taper
ing limbs must be cut off at the right
time throwing the vitality of the tree
into the erect branches"
That the most wonderful peaches
ever raised in Delaware should have
come from sandy ground In West
Dover, giving no promise Of product
save sandburrs ana sweet potatoes re-
fleets an the more on the producer
The Mcdaniel farm is situated by
the side of a winding road, where
there are no fences ana comparatively
little shade. AS a country home for
the city merchant IL would doubtless
he overlooked. But no pen can picture
and no photographer can reproduce
the scene IN that orchard of 5000
fruitful trees that "bringeth forth
good fruit"
Overhanglng the passer-by. like
vari-colored electric lights in a Persian
garden. are ripe peaches-some white.
some yellow, some red with tint of
buff. In one section was the splendid
money-makor. the Elbertas: elsewhere
We're the Delaware product the Old
Nixon; In stih another quarter were
the beautifully-colored Globe; then
the Reeves, then Crawford's Late,
Powelrs Mammoth, Champion. Emma
and Georgia Belle.
How do you cultivate your orch
ard?' Mr. Mcdaniel was asked.
"Once a year we sow COW peas
sometimes scarlet clover When each
reaches a good growth, we plow them
under. They fertlize the ground with
nitrogen and other orchard food"
But you have not lost from rot"
slightly but this is light ground
and that has been in our favor during
the wet season"
do you ship your fruit at your
own risk2'
mo indeed. This takes all our
waking hours (pointing to The pick
ers) eve sell for cash at Wyoming
or Cheswold."
What do you realize from youi
sales in one day, say this morning."
About $500"
At Cheswold this morning there wer,
loaded from this orchard 600 baskets
I in a half hour.