THE PEACH KING of AMERICA.
John H. Parnell, brother of the Irish agitator, is a peach grower in Georgia. His great peach forest is desciibed as containing acres and acres -of ground, stretching indeed into miles, covered with every variety of tree. The trees, ■which number 150,000, are planted twelve feet apart, and are kept trimmed to the ground, so that a person standing can pick the rosy fruit from its fastness. When the first blush comes upon the cheek of the dainty beauties 100 men, women, and children are set to work, each armed with a flat basket, returning to the rendezvous when the bottom is covered. Thus they keep on day after day until the season is over. The story of Mr Parnell's venture is briefly this: He invested 12,000d015. in his plantation. He has spent over SOOOdols. since in trees, seed, and labor. Upon this investment he makes from 8000dols. to 10,000dols. a year, and would not sell his peach forest for less than 600,000d015. Great as Charles Stewart Parnell is as the unci owned King of Ireland, greater is John H. Parnell, the peach king of America.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2860, 2 December 1885, Page 3
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191THE PEACH KING of AMERICA. Kumara Times, Issue 2860, 2 December 1885, Page 3
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