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New York, south along the mountains to the 

 fine orchard section just coming into its own 

 in north Georgia, and the Carolinas and Ten- 

 nessee. Westward we would go through Penn- 

 sylvania, southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 

 and on into Missouri and Arkansas. Then we 

 would jump the Plains States for the most part 

 to the great orchard districts of the North- 

 west. It is in the states mentioned that we find 

 the bulk of the commercial orchards of the 

 country. Wait a minute! I forgot Michigan; 

 unkind of me, but she was off to one side as I 

 came west and I did not notice her. Mighty 

 good orchard state too, Michigan. Ordinarily, 

 when we think of orchard sections where ap- 

 ples are produced in quantity, we think of the 

 states and parts of states that I have men- 

 tioned, but this does not necessarily mean that 

 apples can not be grown in other places. As a 

 matter of fact they can be grown in nearly 

 every state in the Union. Florida, perhaps, 

 might have some difficulty in producing an 

 apple that any one would relish, but then 

 Florida can do so many things that the rest of 

 us can not even attempt that she should not 

 feel the slight. 



Through all of the Central and Eastern 

 States we find the wrecks of old orchards 

 around farm homes even in districts not now 

 known as apple producing centers. These old 



