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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ern Is'ew York and western New York, southern Ontario, New Jersey, eastern 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, middle Georgia, Tennessee, northern 

 Ohio, Southwestern Michigan, southern Illinois, southern Kansas, parts of 

 Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and nearly all of California. The areas of 

 greatest productivity lie (1) along the Atlantic coast between New York and 

 Norfolk and {'^) on the Pacific slope in California. 



The total peach product of the United States, as determined by the tenth 

 census, was never published and can not now be be ascertained. But though 

 it can not be determined for the whole country, it can be determined approxi- 

 mately, and for a series of years, for the Delaware and Chesapeake peninsula, 

 which has been one of the most productive areas. The following table gives 

 the shipments over the Delaware Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington 

 A Baltimore railroad for a series of years; and if one third be added for 

 years prior to 1880, and one-half for years following, to make up for peaches 

 dried, canned, and consumed on the peninsula., or marketed by water, the 

 total will very nearly represent the actual product of the entire peninsula, or 

 at least will not be in access of that product. 



Peach shipments from the Delaware and Che.mpeake Peninsula. 



Year. 



1867. 

 18H8. 

 1869. 



1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 1873. 

 1874 



Baskets 



(five-elghtbs 



bushels.) 



1,036.530 

 12,267 

 2,143,467 

 1,443,733 

 2,668,800 

 2,181,867 

 1,521,600 

 675,200 



1875 4,536.000 



1876. 

 1877. 



1,058,500 

 2,001,500 



Year. 



1878. 

 1879. 

 1880. 

 1881. 

 1882., 

 1883. 

 1884. 

 1885. 

 1886. 

 1887. 

 1888 



Total for twenty-two years . 



Baskets 



(five-tigh'hs 



bushels.) 



434,.500 

 2,165,500 

 1,708,500 



270,500 

 2,731,770 

 1,783,477 

 1,936,617 

 1,870,496 

 1.099,738 



848,378 

 3,177,477 



37.356,417 



VALUE OF PEACH PRODUCTS. 



Skill and industry are needed in peach growing. Not every man who sets 

 an orchard becomes a successful peach grower. There are many obstacles to 

 be overcome, and failures are not infrequent. Nevertheless, in the peach dis- 

 tricts no other crop can be grown with anything like the same amount of 

 profit, ^^any farmers have become rich in the business, and very often a 

 comparatively small peach orchard has yielded a larger money return than 

 all the rest of the farm. Some idea of the profits of successful peach grow- 

 ng may be gained from the following statements : 



