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These districts are thus defined: (1) About the junction of the White 

 and AVahash Rivers in Knox and Gibson Counties: (2) in the hilly 

 section in the south-central part of the State, principally in Orange 

 and Lawrence Counties and adjacent parts of the adjoinin<y counties, 

 including- Brown, Monroe, Jackson, Washinoton. and Martin; (3) 

 in most of the counties bordering the Ohio Kiver; and (4) in the 

 northern part of the State bordering Lake Michigan and including 

 ^arts of Porter and Laporte Counties. 



Varieties. — The bulk of the crop consists of the Elberta variety, 

 with the Carman, Champion, and small quantities of a few others as 

 secondary sorts. 



ILLINOIS. 



Distribution. — Commercial peach growing in Illinois is confined to 

 the southern third of the State, with only such exceptions as are 

 practicall.y negligible. Even in this area the centers of production 

 are rather restricted. In the average season Union County, in the 

 extreme southern part of the State, probably leads in production, 

 but interests of commercial importance are found elsewhere, espe- 

 cially in Johnson, Jackson, Marion, Clay, and Richland Counties. 

 Peach trees are planted in considerable numbers for home use 

 throughout practically the whole State. 



Va-fieties. — The Elberta is roughly estimated by some to comprise 



as high as 90 per cent of the trees planted in the commercial orchards. 



. A few Carman, Mountain Rose, Ede, Heath, and some others occur. 



The Hale (J. H.) has been planted in some of the younger orchards. 



MICHIGAN. 



Distribution. — Peach growing in Michigan is an extensive indus- 

 try. The area in which it has been developed is more clearly defined 

 than in many other States. It borders Lake Michigan in a narrow 

 belt which includes Berrien County, the southwesternmost county 

 of the State, and extends thence to Leelanau County (which lies 

 between Grand Traverse Bay and the lake) on the north. It is 

 largely through the ameliorating influence of Lake Michigan upon 

 climatic conditions in the areas adjacent to it that the development 

 there of a peach-growing industry has been made possible. As the 

 lake's influence extends inland but a short distance, the peach belt 

 is only a very few miles wide at most points. In the Grand Traverse 

 region, about the bay of that name, peaches are grown to some ex- 

 tent, and the belt extends across Ottaw^a County into Kent County 

 in the second tier from the lake, though at most points its w^idth 

 covers only a portion of the first tier of counties bordering the lake. 

 Peaches a-re also produced in some other sections of the State, as, for 



