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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Relative increase of population and of value of orcliard products from 

 the census reports. 



Relative rank in fruit production of the ten leading fruit-producing 

 states, from the census of 1900. 



United States 



California 



New York 



Pennsylvania 



Ohio 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Missouri 



Virginia 



New Jersey 



Orchard Products. 



$83,751,840 

 14,526,786 

 10,542,272 

 7,976,464 

 6,141,118 

 3,778,811 

 3,675,845 

 3,166,338 

 2,944,175 

 2,662,483 

 2,594,981 



All Fruits. 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



6 

 5 



7 

 8 



10 

 9 



The magnitude of the apple crop. Of the total number of 

 orchard trees rej^orted in 1900, 55 per cent were apple and these 

 produced 83 per cent of the total number of bushels of fruit 

 reported. The average production of apples is about two to 

 three bushels per capita. 



"Of the crop of 175,000,000 bushels in 1899, the States of 

 New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio produced nearly 69,000,000 

 bushels, or over 39 per cent of the total crop in the United States. 

 New York justly claims iirst place in the quantity and quality of 

 her apple crop. Apples are grown in nearly all parts of the 

 state, but it is in the lake counties, Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, 

 and Wayne that the industry has been most extensively devel- 

 oped. In 1900 fifteen states outside of New York had a greater 

 number of apple trees than the combined number in these four 



