448 ANNUAL REPORT OF THT] Off. Doc. 



Maiden's Blush and York Imperial. Peaches — Elberta, Late Craw- 

 ford, Globe, Old Mixon and Stump. Salway does well in certain 

 places. The leading pears are Bartlett, Seckel, Duchesse and Clapp's 

 Favorite. 



PIKE COUNTY. 



Owing to its high altitude, Pike county is especially adapted to the 

 production of winter apples of highest grade. Here can be grown 

 Northern Spy, Baldwin, King, Spitzenburg, Grime's Golden and 

 Gilliflower. No attention is i)aid to orchards. The trees simply 

 grow wild, and produce the finest fruit. Most varieties of pear do 

 well. Bartlett, Seckel and Duchesse can be easily grown. Plums 

 and cherries succeed in some places, but peaches are uncertain. 



POTTER COUNTY. 



The industry is undeveloped. Apples, pears and plums succeed 

 as far as tried, on comparatively low land as well as elevated. 

 Peaches have not been grown to any extent. Red Astrachan and 

 Early Harvest apples are grown for summer. King, Baldwin and 

 Spy for winter. 



SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. 



The character of the soil varies greatly according to the geological 

 formation. The mountain ranges trend N. E. and S. W. Fruit has 

 been planted to some extent on the ridges between the mountains; 

 at an altitude of from 500 to 900 feet above the Schuylkill river, with 

 fair success. The peach orchards are located on the eastern slopes 

 and level uplands formerly timbered with chestnut, while apples 

 are doiag better on the lower levels where the soil is rather deeper 

 and more clayey. At present fruit is only grown to supply local 

 demand at the mines. None is shipped out of the county. The land 

 seems to have little natural fertility, it is too porous on the hills, 

 while on the low lands is usually found a tenacious clay resting on 

 an impervious hard pan. The leading apples are Baldwin, Smoke- 

 house, Summer Rambo, Grime's Golden, Winesap aod Maiden's 

 Blush. Pears — Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite, Seckel and Kieffer. 



Peaches — Iron Mountain, Elberta, Mt. Rose, Early and Late Craw- 

 ford, Old Mixon and Stump. Plums and Cherries are not grown to 

 any extent for market, being liable to insect injury, rot and black 

 knot. Only sour cherries and seedlings are grown. There is little 

 demand for quinces, r jd none are grown outside of gardens. 



