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POPULAR FRUIT GROWING. 



gan, New York, Ohio and southern Canada; 2. Long Island and 

 portions of Connecticut, southern New York, New Jersey, Dela- 

 ware and Maryland; 3. Further south there is a great peach 

 section in the highlands of northern Georgia, Alabama, etc.; 

 4. Southern Illinois, Missouri, and portions of Kansas, Iowa and 

 Nebraska; 5. Parts of Texas; 6. Parts of eastern Colorado; 

 7. A large part of California. 



The northern limits of successful peach growing in New 

 England is perhaps central Massachusetts, and even in southern 

 New Hampshire peaches are raised in favorable years. In the 

 Mississippi Valley peaches are raised as far north as southern 



Iowa. However, as the 

 northern limits of peach 

 raising are reached, the 

 crop becomes uncertain, 

 owing chiefly to the kill- 

 ing of the fruit buds in 

 winter, which will gener- 

 ally stand a temperature 

 of over 25 degrees below 

 zero if the wood is well- 

 ripened in autumn. The 

 flow-er buds are much more 

 tender than the leaf buds 

 and are often killed with- 

 out injuring the growth of 

 the trees. On rich soils, 

 especially on those that 

 are liable to be moist, the 

 peach grows too late in 

 autumn and the flower 

 buds will kill in such loca- 

 tions even when uninjured 

 on higher, drier, and perhaps poorer, soils. In central Iowa the 

 planting of the hardiest kind of peaches has been attended with 

 some success. 



Laying the peach trees down in winter. In northern Iowa 

 and southern Minnesota a few peaches are grown each year by 



Fig-. 85. Protecting peach trees. 

 Peach tree tied up, ready for winter 

 covering. (After Whitten.) 



