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larger tracts of easily cultivated lands and being better lo- 

 cated as to market conditions, this district is more highly 

 developed horticulturally than either of the others. Here 

 are the great market gardens and small fruit farms, peach 

 orchards, vineyards and melon fields. 



District No. 2. — This district comprises Tolland and 

 Windham counties and all of Middlesex and New London 

 counties except Cromwell and the shore towns, and is par- 

 ticularly well suited to apple and peach culture, owing to 



Map of Connecticut's Three 

 Horticultural Districts. 



the rolling condition of the country and natural fertility of 

 many of the hills. Every few miles are little valleys and 

 pockets suited to the production of small fruits and vege- 

 tables in variety. A few townships in the northeast grow 

 apples quite extensively, while in the west and southwest 

 commercial peach orchards are found to considerable extent. 



District No. 3. — This district comprises western Hart- 

 ford, northwestern New Haven, northern Fairfield, and all 

 of Litchfield counties, and is somewhat similar to district 

 No. 2, except that the soil is generally heavier, with rather 

 more mixture of clay and the hills are more abrupt and 

 rocky. Some sections of Litchfield county are too cold and 

 bleak for any but the most hardy fruits. 



Apples grow freely everywhere, and, while always of 

 good quality, the brightest colors, firmest texture and high- 

 est quality of fruit is produced on the rocky hills, at an ele- 

 vation of from 400 to 1,000 feet. Baldwin, Rhode Island 



