Peach growers now usually choose a list like the following, named in the order in which they ripen: Troths' Early, Large Early York, Crawford's Early, Crawford's Late, Reeves' Favorite, Ward's Late Free, Oldmixon Free, and Beers' Smock. The finest of all the peaches are the Crawfords and Oldmixon, the last perhaps the choicest in flavor. The Susquehanna is the largest grown, but not productive, single peaches often measuring nine to ten inches in circumference.

The Hale's Early is now very unpopular among the growers, on account of its tendency to rot on the trees before ripening, and is too tender for shipping. Mr. Quinn, to whom we are indebted for notes of this excursion, states that fully one million more trees will be in bearing next year over those of this year, and low prices may be expected to continue for several years to come, and the lot of the peach growers both very hard and unprofitable. The net prices of peaches this year range only from ten to twenty-five cents per basket. All the excursionists unite in expressions of delight at the beauty of the country visited. The farms are large, and as the land is level, or slightly rolling and uneven, orchards reach on every side, and the country has one uniform handsome appearance.

The system of hedges of the Peninsula naturally adds to the beauty of the farm, and excites the admiration of the visitor. During the ride of one hundred and forty miles in their carriages, the excursionists saw more than thirty miles of Osage hedges, either facing the road or dividing lines for one farm from another, forming at four years old not only fences of great size, but of utility, for they are completely impenetrable by cattle or pigs.

Fruit culture in Delaware is on a more colossal scale than our Northern readers have any possible idea of, yet it will be seen that like fruit grown everywhere, there are discouragements at almost every step. Still, like all occupations, after good lively competition, fruit growing becomes at last a settled occupation, and after " fevers " are over, there is a permanency to the trade, and a healthy increase in demand year after year.