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Orange County and in the southern parts of Dutchess and Ulster 

 Counties. Small quantities of peaches are also grown along the Lake 

 Erie shore, in Erie and Chautauqua Counties, but the interests there, 

 as in many other sections where home orchards occur, are relatively 

 unimportant as compared with those along the shore of Lake 

 Ontario. 



VarkncK. — The Carman, Champion, Belle, Early Crawford, El- 

 berta, Late Crawford, Stevens, and Salwey are the principal varie- 

 ties grown. A very large proportion of the product consists of the 

 Elberta variety, it being estimated to comprise 80 per cent of the crop 

 in some localities. There is no close second to the Elberta variety in 

 the peach industry of the State. 



NEW JERSET. 



Dlslr'thittlon. — Peach growing has long been a prominent com- 

 mercial enterprise in New Jersey. Orchards are widely distributed 

 in most parts of the State, but the commercial interests are more or 

 less localized about certain centers. The centers of principal produc- 

 tion have changed to some extent because of the incursions of peach 

 yellows, the ravages of the San Jose scale, and for other reasons, but 

 at present the larger regions commercially important are the follow- 

 ing: Hunterdon County, in the locality of Lebanon and New German- 

 town ; Monmouth Countj^, about Fr^hold and Middletown ; Burling- 

 ton County, centering about Moorestown and Burlington ; Gloucester 

 County, about Glassboro ; Atlantic County, in the vicinity of Ham- 

 monton ; and Cumberland County, with Vineland as a prominent cen- 

 ter of production. Except Hunterdon and Monmouth, the counties 

 named above are located in the southern half of the State. Wliile 

 peaches are widely grown outside the centers mentioned, the counties 

 named indicate the general distribution of the larger interests. 



Varieties. — The principal varieties planted at present comprise the 

 following: Greensboro, Arp, Carman, Lola, St. John, Hiley, Cham- 

 pion, Belle, Elberta, Frances, Fox, Iron Mountain, and Krummel. 

 While few orchards, and perhaps none, contain all of these varieties, 

 the list is made up of those which are variously planted in the prin- 

 cipal peach sections. In an earlier day the Mountain Rose, Early 

 Crawford, and Reeves were leading commercial sorts, but these are 

 of relatively little importance in New Jersey at the present time. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Distribution. — Peaches are widely distributed in most parts of 

 Pennsylvania, and the large number of good-sized industrial towns 

 and cities in that State furnish local markets for much fruit. Though 

 from many orchards the fruit is shipped in car lots to distant mar- 



