A well known peach grower near Chestertown, favored the party with figures of his gross receipts from a peach orchard of three hundred and twenty-five acres, during a term of nine years. Trees in this orchard in 1862, were then but four years planted.

More than half of this went fur expense of marketing and gathering, the rest was profit.

The trees in Delaware orchards are usually planted 20 by 20, giving 108 trees to the acre. The third year from planting they begin to bear, and continue fifteen or twenty, if well cultivated. Once a year they are wormed and branches are thinned out after each crop. Shortening or pruning the tops is practiced only among a few first class growers, who believe in it; and some are trying the plan of growing low heads, which is not fancied by the majority, yet it forms a self-protection.