peaches: production estimates, etc. 23 



GBOUGIA. 



DistHbution. — According to the Thirteenth Census there were 

 about 10,B()0,000 peach trees of bearing age in Georgia in 1910, the 

 largest number reported for aii}'^ one State. In the combined number 

 of trees of bolli bearing and nonbearing age, Georgia was exceeded 

 by Texas and California. 



In yield California is far ahead of Georgia (see fig. 6), but, as 

 noted under California, a large part of the peach crop of that State 

 is used for drying and canning. In shipments of fresh fruit in 

 seasons of a good crop Georgia normally leads all other States. 



In general the commercial peach interests of Georgia may bo 

 said to be in the central and northern parts of the State. A. line 

 extending from Augusta (in the east-central part of the State) in 

 a southwesterly direction toward Albany until it cuts the thirty- 

 second parallel of latitude (which is practically the latitude of 

 Savannah and Americus), and then running directly west to the 

 Georgia-Alabama State line, will divide the State into two sections, 

 of which the northern contains practically all the commercial peach 

 orchards. 



The following are the principal counties in which peaches are 

 grown: In the northeastern part of the State, Habersham. White, 

 Banks, Hall, Jackson, Elbert; in the northwestern j^art. Dade, 

 Walker, Catoosa, Whitefield, Murra3% Chattooga, Gordon. Pickens, 

 Floyd, Bartow, Cherokee, Polk, Paulding, Co])b, and Haralson. The 

 above counties are north of the latitude of Atlanta. In the west- 

 central part are Meriwether, Spalding, Pike, Monroe, Harris, 

 Upson, Crawford, Bibb, Marion, Taylor, Macon, Houston, Stewart, 

 and Sumter Counties. In the east-central part are Columbia, Mc- 

 DufBe, Warren, Glascock, Washington, Hancock, Putnam, Jasper, 

 Jones, and Twiggs Counties. 



By far the largest center of production is Fort Yalley, in Houston 

 County. The next most important centers, on the basis of size, are 

 adjacent areas in Crawford and Macon Counties. Several other 

 counties immediately adjacent to these also contain large interests. 



Varieties.' — In the central sections the principal sorts are the May- 

 flower, Greensboro, Dixie Queen, Early Eose, Carman, Waddell, 

 Hiley, Belle, Hale (J. H.). and Elberta. Those in the northern 

 sections are the Carman, Hiley, Belle, and Elberta. Since the very 

 early varieties if grown in the northern sections would compete with 

 the later and more desirable fruit from central Georgia, they are not 

 much planted there. The Elberta is planted in all sections of the 

 State verv much more extensivelv than anv other one sort. 



