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as tliat including the Virginias, Maryland, and Delaware and pro- 

 duced more apples than anv other division by over twelve millions 

 of bushels. New York produced more than twice as many apples 

 as any state in the Union and 17.3 per cent of the whole. 



5. New England states. Every one of these except Maine 

 showed a decrease in the number of trees, the average of vv'hich 

 was 9 per cent, Vermont showing a decrease of 1(3 per cent. 



6. Pacific Slope states — Washington, Oregon, and Califoniin. 

 These three states combined had about the same number of bear- 



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Fig. 576. — Baldwin Trees, 1,5 Years Old, and the Product of a Single 

 Tree, ix Orchard of Edward van Alstyne, Ivinderhook, X. Y. 



ing trees as all New England — about two-thirds as many as New 

 York ; of those not of bearing age, about four times as many as 

 New England and about the same number more than New York. 

 The product was about equal to that of New England and two- 

 fifths of that of New York. 



In the twentysix states east of the Mississippi there were 

 nearly 3l/i> millions less trees than in 1900, a decrease of 2.5 per 

 cent. In the twenty-two states west of the Mississippi there was 

 an increase of 27.2 per cent, yet the total number of trees is 



