DELAWARE PEACH ORCHARDS
1842
New Bedford Mercury, New
Bedford, Massachusetts, August 26, 1842
The Peach Orchards of
Delaware are realizing a large crop this year and Major Raybold of
Philadelphia and New York,
who owns one, has contracted to deliver 10,000 baskets to New York,
at
a three peck bushel.
$2.50 a basket, has
already delivered a 1000 baskets.
Jacob Ridgeway of
Philadelphia, has an 300 acre orchard on the Delaware River below
Delaware City. In 1839 he
gathered from his orchard 18,000 bushels of first rate fruit from 170
acres
of which 50 acres were in
full bearing. His system is to ' thin out ' the fruit in early
season and allow
the remaining crop to reach
a larger size and are more delicious, therefore his preaches are the
best of
the market and bring from
$4.50 to $6.00
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