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in the State. The Milton-Freewater district in Oregon is a part of 

 the Walla Walla Valley. In all of these valleys most of the peach 

 trees are interplanted in the apple orchards. As the apple trees de- 

 velop, the peach trees are taken out. As a result, there is at present 

 a more or less rapid and constant decrease in the extent of the peach 

 industr}^ in Washington. 



Varieties. — There are no varieties that are in any way character- 

 istic of these districts. The most important sorts are the Triumph, 

 Carman, Champion, Early Elberta, Early Crawford, Elberta, Late 

 Crawford, and Salwey. The Elberta is the principal variety in most 

 localities. 



DistTihution. — Peaches are grown in Oregon to a considerable ex- 

 tent as fillers interplanted in apple orchards. To this extent, there- 

 fore, peach growing in this State is a temporary enterprise. In some 

 sections, however, peach trees have been planted on a somevv'hat per- 

 manent orchard basis. This is the case in The Dalles district in 

 Wasco County, in the Ashland and Merlin districts in the Rogue 

 Hiver A^alley, and in the vicinity of Salem in the Willamette Val- 

 ley. Important valleys where many peaches have been interplanted 

 in apple orchards include such localities as the Milton-Freewater 

 district in Umatilla County, this being a part of the Walla Walla 

 Valley, the Hood River Valley, the Umpqua Valley, and various 

 points in the Willamette Valley in addition to Salem, which is men- 

 tioned above. 



Varieties, — A large number of different varieties are grown in the 

 A^arious districts, the more important and widely distributed of 

 which include the Alexander, Early Crawford, Early Charlotte, 

 Elberta, Late Crawford, Muir, Phillips, and Salwey. In most in- 

 stances in the districts where peaches are of special commercial 

 value the problem in selecting varieties is more largely that of se- 

 curing sorts that ripen at a desired time or are suited to the pur- 

 pose for which they are to be used than of choosing varieties that 

 will develop well. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Distrihution. — The peach interests of California surpass those of 

 any other State in both quantity and value of the product. Ac- 

 cording to the Thirteenth Census, there were nearly 1,500,000 more 

 trees not of bearing age in California in 1910 than in any other 

 State, though in number of trees of bearing age Texas and Georgia 

 each surpassed California. Moreover, the industry is highly special- 

 ized. While large quantities of fruit are marketed in the fresh 

 state, the planting of varieties intended especially for canning as 



