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leading apples are Rome Beauty, Grime's Golden, Rambo, Northern 

 Spy, Yellow Transparent, Duchesse of Oldenburg and Summer Ram- 

 bo. Pears — Bartlett and Kieffer. Peaches — Elberta, Champion, Mt. 

 Rose, Late Crawford, Stump and Old Mixon. Cherries — Yellow 

 Spanish, Black Tartarian, Early Richmond. Leading plums are 

 Damson, Lombard and Shipper's Pride. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



This is a dairy county, but altitude and soil are so favorable to 

 apples that we find them growing wild in the pastures and on the 

 hillsides. The finest winter varieties can be grown. Peaches can 

 be grown if proper location is selected. Fruit trees are not cared 

 for, and the fruit is roughly handled and carelessly packed. As a 

 consequence prices received for Wayne county fruit have not been 

 satisfactory, and the shippers have become discouraged. If the 

 apple trees now standing in the county were properly cared for, and 

 the fruit carefully graded and packed, it would command top prices 

 in any market. The leading apples are Baldwin, Northern Spy, King, 

 Hubbardston and Duchesse of Oldenburg. In addition, Mammoth 

 Pippin, Seek-no-farther, Black Gilliflower, and Cooper's Market are 

 highly recommended. York Imperial is on trial, but too young yet 

 to bear. The leading peaches are Triumph, Globe, Old Mixon, Craw- 

 ford's Early, Elberta, Crosby and Crawford's Late. These have all 

 been successfully fruited by Mr. E. E. Avery, of Dyberry, whose or- 

 chard is planted on gravel soil 1,800 feet above sea level, aod about 

 200 feet above water level, and who, after years of experience raising 

 and dealing in fruit, believes that Wayne county is a very good 

 place to grow fruit for market, especially winter apples. 



WESTMORELAND COUNTY. 



Owing to its altitude above sea level, winter apples of high grade 

 can be grown. Peaches can be grown on carefully selected locations. 

 Also cherries, Japan plums and European plums. Little attention 

 has been paid to fruit, but a few commercial orchards have recently 

 been planted, which are not yet in bearing. The soil in the valleys 

 is principally limestone clay, while on the upland, it is more sandy. 

 The best fruit and the largest crops of fruit are grown on these sandy 

 uplands. . The leading varieties of apples are Baldwin, Rambo, Ben 

 Davis, Maiden's Blush, Spitzenburg, Early Harvest and Winesap. 

 York Imperial is on trial in many places, but trees are mostly too 

 young to bear. Pears — Bartlett a«d Kieffer. Peaches — Elberta, 

 Crawford's Early and Late,Mt. Rose, Old Mixon and Crosby. Plums — 



