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the mountain orchards, terracing is practiced to prevent washing 

 and the rows of trees are along the contour of mountain slopes, 

 rather than in straight lines. 



The conditions are much the same throughout this whole 

 piedmont and mountain area. In some sections, the possibilities 

 are being realized, and considerable planting of orchards is 

 being done ; in other portions of the area, no advantage is being 

 taken of the opportunities thus provided by nature. Some of 

 the most interesting apple orchards are in northeast Georgia, but 

 these are on a small scale, while the peach orchards are numer- 

 ous and extensive. 



THE PRODUCTION OF EARLY VARIETIES. 



I wish to refer now very briefly to another phase of orchard- 

 ing which has been developed to quite an extent in some portions 

 of Delaware, Alaryland and New Jersey ; to some extent also in 

 other places, but it is mostly a very incidental development in 

 these other places. In the states named, it has become quite a 

 well defined feature of fruit growing. I refer to the production 

 of early apples — those ripening from the middle to the last of 

 June up to perhaps the middle of August. It will suffice to say 

 now that the growing of this class of apples is not essentially 

 different from the growing of the later kinds, but the fruit is 

 handled quite differently. The trees are picked over several 

 times as the fruit ripens, and the apples are shipped in baskets or 

 crates the same as peaches are. In fact, the methods of hand- 

 ling the fruit are quite similar to the handling of peaches. 



(During the course of these observations, the speaker exhibited 

 a large number of photographs illustrating the conditions in the 

 various sections that were referred to.) 



