As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
There is a contention that the peach tree might have originated on two sides of the globe in China and America, as peach trees were found immediately in the Mississippi Valley or it might have been Phoenician plantings on their arrival after the exile of Israel by the Assyrians long previous, but what I call attention to is America was founded by the established advancers of American peoples in 1607 AD in the year of our Lord and 1620 AD in the year of our Lord in Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies.
What is of interest in this is of April 17th, 1629, the Governor in a letter to Captain John Endicot of Massachusetts Bay Colony was advocating for the stones and kernels to be sent, meaning peach and cherry stones and other crops.
In 1633 AD in the year of our Lord, the Dutch maritime captain, DeVries, found in the garden of George Minifie on the James River, where he had 2 acres of an orchard, in primroses, apple, pear and cherry, with an abundance of peach trees around his house.
Mr. Minifie settled in this area 11 years previous, and America was already in bloom fully.
In 1635 AD in the year of our Lord, Maryland was noted as overflowing with fruit of pears, apples, plums and peaches which were as fine as those in Italy, which was a standard of fruit culture.
Delaware was full of orchards in this 17th century period already, Campanius in travels through the settled and wild regions, records finding fruit laden boughs so full they were breaking trees apart.
He mentions a cider which was curious in being a product of a Pippin seed planted in Delaware and yielding this brew while the Americans arrived with carts to haul the peaches away, which were said to hang like onions on porches in Europe.
For those ignorant of it, Delaware was named New Sweden in that era now lost in time. Yes the Swedish colonized America early as the Dutch, English, French and Spanish.
Virginia at the start of the same century was full of orchards too. Robert Beverly recorded on a tour that the trees began bearing 3 years from the stone and that no husbandry was necessary in grafting or innoculating. The plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots were abundant.
Georgia was full of the same fruits, including black and white mulberries, with orchards of oranges, lemons, apples and pears. English writers called English fruit insipid in taste in being watery, compared to the fine Georgia fruits, which they lamented were given to hogs as they were so abundant.
Pennsylvania was of like hog feeding measures of peaches in their being that common, much to the wincing of the English lords.
Maryland apples were mealy or soft, but that was of no problem for the Americans, in they were turning out volumes of distilled cider and peach brandy.
In 1748 peaches were reportedly grown in southern Canada, and said to be known in the Mississippi Valley then. In 1793 AD in the year of our Lord, May Duke cherries were reported large and full in the Niagra, Ontario region.
James Robinson in Anne Arundel County of Maryland, the same of the famous melon, in the year of 1800 AD in the year of our Lord had growing 18,000 to 20,000 peach trees all from seedlings. In order to gain that type of stone by the bushel, it simply shows how immense the American peach crop was of that era.
These peaches were entirely rendered into peach brandy.
With all of that early planting taking place, it was not until after the Civil War that orchards in America were established for commerical production. Peach production in 1909 AD in the year of our Lord were in states of California, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Michigan and New York. Colorado would be added to that list now as a primary producer.
One realizes that there were no stores and hard lessons were taught colonists that if they could not afford it, they could not import it and waiting for a ship to come in, one had to starve often enough. So the result was a lust for food and a push from the commercial nature of the companies to find things to export in order to pay for their colonies.
These realities are never discussed and regretfully overlooked in the immense and numerous gardens and orchards in America at her founding, due to the need, industry and enterprise of the people.
Almost all of the early apple varieties in America, were seedlings planted by one of the colonial gardeners on their lands throughout New England. A greater majority of the popular types seem to have originated in New York and Massachusetts. The infamous Esopus Spitzenberg is a New York seedling, which was extensively planted by Thomas Jefferson and praised by all who tasted it. The Spitzenberg was the Honeycrisp of that era, and in all honesty, the Honeycrisp does not surpass that old apple.
The "problem" with the Spitzenberg is one of those rare genius traits of two types of American apples in the Spy and the named apple in they tend to be producers of apples every other year.
That is why it was abandoned for the Wealthy type apple as the Wealthy was more constant in order to produce income.
It gladdens me this Youtube generation with e books of the internet, linking to a new generation of Americans sprouting seeds and seeing what God will provide for them in His mutations. America was a much nicer place when they were a people of thrift and gardens.
I was in the American mid section of Kansas for a time, and me being me, I am always picking at the flora to see what it is. It was stunning to me, to be in such a well watered region where I noted seedlings were sprouting like weeds in street gutters and people's lawns, that I did not see one apple tree.
I happened upon a cherry tree I believe or perhaps a crab, but that was it. How are region of over 2 million people could not be moved to plant fruit trees just astounded me.
I hope that all these fruity seed videos and information move numbers of people to this discovery of their roots, as all it requires is just saving some seeds which are free from the fruit you buy, taking the pits out, putting them in the fridge in a damp cloth for a few months, and some trees should appear to pot up, and then plant on your property.
It is not like people have to sit on hen's eggs for three weeks. Is like washing clothes, put them in, go live your life and take them out.
I saw mentioned in this 1900 AD in the year of our Lord census, that peaches were grown in all states. I wonder what lasted in North Dakota in that pneumonia hole, but perhaps there is something there which I have missed.
Everyone should have a fruit tree. Apple trees can be rid of worms, but a plastic liter soda bottle, into which you put one banana peel, some vinegar, sugar, and the moths enter in and do not get out to lay eggs on the apples.
There really does need to be more family orchards in America and truck farms. The people in part do seem to be returning to their heritage and that is a good thing. What a wonderful thing in the English, Dutch, French and Swedish peoples populated colonial America with fruit trees to make it all a garden of Eden.
It is the worst type of censorship that this is not more known to the people.
I am off to brood over an Ambrosia apple sprout I am hopeful for.
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