Peaches - Revision history

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	* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]		* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]
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		+	* Peaches listed in the [http://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/cfm/search.cfm?start=1&hi=on&user=&tag=text&archive=all&noimages=&query=peach&submit=Search Farm Book and Garden Book Manuscripts]

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	--Jefferson to Richard Threlkeld, March 26, 1807.		--Jefferson to Richard Threlkeld, March 26, 1807.

-	Jefferson's collection of peaches was an extraordinary assemblage of Old and New World varietes, early and late producers, freestones and clingstones. He received young, budded trees from the William Prince Nursery in New York and the Thomas Main and Alexander Hepburn nurseries in Washington; he obtained peach stones from friends like George Mason, Timothy Matlack, Isaac Coles, James Taylor, and William Meriwether. He was sent a shipment of choice Italian varieties by Philip Mazzei. He received local types from his own Monticello workman, such as James Balyal, who worked in the vegetable garden. Many of the Mazzei varieties were probably unique introductions into American gardens, including the Vaga Loggia, Maddalena, and the Apple peach. There were many famous American varieties in the Monticello collection as well, among them the Heath Cling, America's first named peach, the Oldmixon Cling, Morris' Red Rareripe, and the Indian Blood Cling. Nearly half of the thirty-eight varieties grown by Jefferson at Monticello were described in the pomological literature -- a tribute to the depth of his collection and the sincerity of his interest in fine fruit.	+	Jefferson's collection of peaches was an extraordinary assemblage of Old and New World varietes, early and late producers, freestones and clingstones. He received young, budded trees from the William Prince Nursery in New York and the Thomas Main and Alexander Hepburn nurseries in Washington; he obtained peach stones from friends like George Mason, Timothy Matlack, [[Isaac A. Coles]], James Taylor, and William Meriwether. He was sent a shipment of choice Italian varieties by Philip Mazzei. He received local types from his own Monticello workman, such as James Balyal, who worked in the vegetable garden. Many of the Mazzei varieties were probably unique introductions into American gardens, including the Vaga Loggia, Maddalena, and the Apple peach. There were many famous American varieties in the Monticello collection as well, among them the Heath Cling, America's first named peach, the Oldmixon Cling, Morris' Red Rareripe, and the Indian Blood Cling. Nearly half of the thirty-eight varieties grown by Jefferson at Monticello were described in the pomological literature -- a tribute to the depth of his collection and the sincerity of his interest in fine fruit.

	Today, Monticello's orchards are planted with 45 nineteenth-century varieties.		Today, Monticello's orchards are planted with 45 nineteenth-century varieties.

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
-	*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 ''The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello'',] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.	+	*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 ''The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello'',] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998

	* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]		* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]

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	* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]		* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]

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	Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.		Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.

-	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of [[Mexico]] settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in [[Mexico]] at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as [[Philadelphia]] in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.	+	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even [[John Bartram]], America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of [[Mexico]] settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in [[Mexico]] at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as [[Philadelphia]] in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.

	Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.		Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.

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	Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.		Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.

-	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of [[Mexico]] settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in [[Mexico]] at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as Philadelphia in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.	+	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of [[Mexico]] settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in [[Mexico]] at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as [[Philadelphia]] in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.

	Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.		Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.

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	Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.		Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.

-	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of Mexico settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in Mexico at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as Philadelphia in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.	+	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of [[Mexico]] settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in [[Mexico]] at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as Philadelphia in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.

	Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.		Aside from the trees cultivated by Native Americans and the naturalized Indian peaches, the European settlers in Virginia planted the fruit in enormous quantities, ultimately defining a distinctive American form of fruit growing quite different from the European tradition. Peaches were noted by John Smith in Jamestown as early as 1629, and in 1676 Thomas Glover said, "Here [in Virginia] are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear such an infinite quantity of Peaches, that at some Plantations they beat down to the Hoggs fourty bushels in a year." Robert Beverley also described the "luxury of the peach" in early Virginia orchards: " ... some good Husbands plant great Orchards of [peaches], purposely for their Hogs; and others make a Drink of them, which they call Mobby, and either drink it as Cider, or Distill it off for Brandy." Although Jefferson recorded the production of mobby in 1782 and 1785, it is difficult to determine whether he fermented it further into brandy.

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
	*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 ''The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello'',] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.		*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 ''The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello'',] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
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		+	* [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=peach+peaches&BOOL1=any+of+these&FLD1=Title+%28TKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=peach+peaches&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=Subject+%28SKEY%29&DB=local&SEQ=20080125150114&CNT=50&HIST=1 Selected Sources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal]

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-	Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, George Washington only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.	+	Just as the role of the apple reflected the diversity and melting-pot culture of early American life, so was the '''peach'''<ref>This article is based on Peter Hatch, [http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/peach.html Twinleaf,] January 1998.</ref> an early image for the bounty and luxury of the New World's natural productions. By the beginning of the eighteenth century peach trees had naturalized so abundantly throughout the southeastern and mid-Atlantic colonies that John Lawson said they grew as luxuriantly as weeds: "we are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees." [[Thomas Jefferson]] also regarded the peach as a fancy delicacy for the table and, if one measures his appreciation of a fruit by the frequency with which it was planted, or by the number of varieties in his collection, the peach would easily be considered his favorite fruit tree. While peach varieties were seldom mentioned in eighteenth-century Virginia literature, and in fact, [[George Washington]] only noted two specific varieties for his Mount Vernon orchard, Jefferson cultivated over thirty-eight in his South Orchard alone. The peach was the queen bee, the workhorse of tree fruits at Monticello; a luxury because of its abundance, its usefulness, but also, simply, because Thomas Jefferson liked peaches.

	Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of Mexico settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in Mexico at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as Philadelphia in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.		Although peaches were commonly grown in Old World gardens and orchards, spreading from Asia on the tides of civilization, most European explorers mistakenly thought the peach was an indigenous American product. From Pennsylvania south, peach trees merged into the surrounding vegetation so completely that the earliest natural historians, even John Bartram, America's first great botanist, assumed the peach was a native tree. In fact, the peach was introduced either by the Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 or by the French to an isolated Gulf of Mexico settlement in 1562. It was probably grown in Mexico at an even earlier date. Native American peach culture migrated north with the travels of Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries and with the Native Americans themselves. At the same time, the cultivated trees escaped into the landscape. William Penn observed wild, Indian peaches as far north as Philadelphia in 1683, and a few years later John Banister wrote that, in Virginia, "Peaches and Nectarines I believe to be Spontaneous ... for the Indians have, and ever had greater variety, and finer sorts of them than we ..." Luigi Castiglioni noted in 1787 that, "Peach trees are so abundant in Virginia that often, upon cutting away a pine wood ... they cover the whole terrain." It seems odd that today there is no place where peach trees dominate "the whole terrain" in Virginia, although they are reported as relatively uncommon in about half of its counties.

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
-	*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello,] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.	+	*Hatch, Peter J. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5275 ''The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello'',] Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.

	[[Category:Agriculture and Gardening]]		[[Category:Agriculture and Gardening]]