2 THE AMERICAN PEACH ORCHARD 



ters Canada to include an important peach-growing 

 section in the Niagara district of Ontario, lying at 

 the head of Lake Ontario, and a less prominent one 

 on the northern shore of Lake Erie toward the 

 western end. The peach district also includes south- 

 ern Michigan and southeastern Wisconsin. The line 

 then tends southward, touching the southern border 

 counties in Iowa, passes across Nebraska, Colorado 

 and Utah, and after an important break in crossing 

 the Cascade and the Coast ranges of mountains, runs 



TVVO-YtAR-OLD MASSACHUSETTS ORCHARD 



upward along the Pacific coast into British Co- 

 lumbia. 



There is a southern limit also to the cultivation of 

 the peach, though this is less well marked and less 

 important. The ordinary varieties of peaches will 

 not succeed on the low, warm lands of Florida and 

 other sections immediately bordering the Gulf of 

 Mexico. Certain varieties of the Peen-to type carry 

 the limit somewhat farther south, but these varieties 

 have never gained any standing in the commercial 

 markets. 



It will be seen, therefore, that the peach-growing 

 region occupies practically the entire United States, 



