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THE HOME ORCHARD— APPLE, PEAR, QUINCE 



Fig. 99. 



Fig. 99. — Apple trees of bearing age. Approximate acreage, 1910. Over 93 per cent of 

 this acreage was in the eastern portion of U. S., the acreage in any one of the five leading 

 states — New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan or Missouri, exceeding that of the entire 

 western half of the United States. 



Fia. 100. — Approximate acreage of pear trees in the United States. The largest centers 

 of production are located in eastern Maryland, Delaware and southern New Jersey, in west- 

 ern New York, southern Michigan, in the Sacramento and Santa Clara Valleys, Cal„ the 

 Rogue River Valley, Ore., the Yakima Valley, Wash., and the Grand Valley, Colo. 



