Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Big Fruit Farm in Georgia. [ARTICLE]

Big Fruit Farm in Georgia.

On the Rumph . orchards, between Marshallville and Fort Valley are 1,000,000 peach trees and 20,000 pear trees. These orchards, during the good fruit seasons, have been marvelodSiy ! profitable. One peach cfop sold for 1 $52,000 and another for $64,000. Mr. Rumph has also .the largest plum orchard in the world. There are 15,000 Japanese plum trees on the place, and in the nursery near by 200,000 seedlings, worth $15,000. There' are also 30,000 raspberry bushes in cultivation. Unbridled passion tometimes leads to the halter.