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Varieties. — The varieties grown are substantially the same as those 

 planted in Connecticut and I^iassachusetts. 



CON.^fECTICTJT. 



Bistrihution. — Peach growing is more or less widely distributed 

 in most parts of Connecticut, except in Litchfield County, in the 

 extreme northwestern part of the State, where few peaches are 

 grown. The district of particular importance commercially, how- 

 ever, is the central part of the State, in the Connecticut Eiver valley 

 from about the region of Hartford southward and including areas 

 in most parts of New Haven County. Eepresentative towns in this 

 district may be named, as follows: Farmington, Glastonbury, and 

 Southington, in Hartford County ; Durham and Middlefield, in Mid- 

 dlesex County; Cheshire, Guilford, Milford, Oxford, and Walling- 

 f ord, in New Haven County ; and Greenwich, Norwalk, and other 

 towns in the southern part of Fairfield County adjacent to the shore 

 of Long Island Sound. In New Haven County the towns of Guil- 

 ford and Milford, above named, adjoin the Sound. Peaches are also 

 grown more or less in other towns similarly located between Green- 

 wich and Guilford. 



Varieties. — Many growers in Connecticut select varieties with a 

 view to marketing peaches during as long a period as possible. The 

 principal sorts planted are the Greensboro, Waddell, Carman, Hiley, 

 Champion, Belle, Early Crawford, Hale (J. H,), Elberta, Frances, 

 Stump, Late Crawford, Fox, Stevens, Iron Mountain, and Salwey. 



MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 

 NEW YOEK. 



Distribution. — Though New York is one of the large peach- 

 producing States, the districts in which the principal interests are 

 located are more clearly defined than in many other States. By far 

 the largest output is from the Lake Ontario shore district from 

 Oswego County westward to and including Niagara County. This 

 district consists at most points of a narrow strip only a few miles 

 wide, where the influence of the lake so modifies the climatic con- 

 ditions at certain periods as to make them especially favorable for 

 peach growing. . At a few points this favored belt extends into the 

 northern parts of the second tier of counties, as, for instance, in 

 Livingston County, in which some peaches are produced. This is 

 by far the largest commercial peach district in the State. .Another 

 district is that immediately surrounding the " finger lakes," in 

 central-western New York, where at various points peaches are grown 

 in limited quantities. A third district of some importance is in the 

 Hudson River valley and comprises locations along the river in 



