148 FRUIT-GROWING 



ture vanish with the passing years while the 

 flirtatious fruit made friends in new neighbor- 

 hoods where it had been previously unknown. 



I know of several sections in my own state 

 where peach orchards once furnished the main- 

 spring of industry. To-day peaches are 

 shipped into these localities from other dis- 

 tricts. At one time the Traverse Bay section 

 of Michigan produced many peaches. Now it 

 produces almost none. New "Eldorados" are 

 being discovered each year and peach planting 

 goes on much as usual — first in one part of the 

 country or state and then in another. 



As a matter of fact the peach may be grown 

 over nearly the whole of the United States. 

 There are some areas in the South — along the 

 Gulf and in Florida — where the climate is not 

 suitable for our usual commercial varieties, 

 but even in those sections certain sorts may be 

 produced. In the North the boundary of prac- 

 tical peach-growing extends in some places even 

 into Canada, the limiting factor being the mini- 

 mum winter temperature. Where the ther- 

 mometer makes a regular practice of going to 

 fifteen or twenty degrees below zero every 

 winter, or even every few years, peach-growing 

 would best not be attempted, for the buds will 

 almost certainly be killed even if the trees are 

 not. There has been considerable discussion as 

 to the amount of cold that a peach tree and the 



