THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Peach-Production in the United States 1890-1910 — Continued 



105 



States 



Number of trees of bearing age - 



Eleventh 



Census, 



1890 



Twelfth 



Census, 



1900 



Thirteenth 



Census, 



1910 



Trees not 

 of bearing 



age. 



Thirteenth 



Census, 



1910 



West South Central: 



Arkansas 



Louisiana 



Oklahoma 



Texas 



Mountain. 



Montana 



Idaho 



Wyoming 



Colorado 



New Mexico .... 



Arizona 



Utah 



Nevada 



Pacific : 



Washington .... 



Oregon 



California 



2,769,052 



317.132 



206 



4,486,901 



13.639 



8,204 

 23.081 



24.954 

 68,121 



3.996 



72,701 



115.244 



2,669,843 



4,062,218 



758.877 

 5,848,808 



7.248.358 



1,670 



79.757 



9 



31.998 



117,003 



67,073 

 409,665 



9.136 



226,636 



281 ,716 



7,472,393 



.859,962 

 903.352 

 .783.825 

 .737.827 



538 



73,080 



46 



793.372 



136,191 



51.415 



544,314 



6,329 



536.875 

 273,162 

 ,829,011 



Total 53.885, .'597 



99,916,598 



94,506,657 



2,884.927 



316,132 



2,574,680 



2,958,813 



3.386 



212,995 



419 



606,001 



184.466 



32,562 



651,233 



5,049 



I ,028,141 



508,179 



4,409,562 



42 , 266 , 243 



NEW TYPES OF PEACHES 



The capacity of species to split into types, using types in a broad 

 sense, is, we all agree, one of the greatest assets of cultivated plants. 

 Through diversity of types come adaptabilities to soils and climates and 

 variety in the crop, to mention but two of the essentials of standard crop- 

 plants. New types afford the material from which greatest progress comes 

 in fruit-growing. In common with all fruit-growing, peach-growing has 

 received impetus from time to time from the introduction of new and 

 distinct types. In the middle of the Nineteenth Century, three previously 

 unknown types of peaches, each divisible into horticultural varieties, were 

 brought to America. All three have had important effects on the peach- 

 industry in America. 



North China peaches. — Not very distinct from the Persian peaches 

 at the outset, its outliers running into some of the other groups as well, 

 " North China " is now but little more than a name for a conglomerate 

 lot of varieties grown everywhere in America except in the sub-tropic parts 

 of the Gulf States. The North China race includes varieties characterized 



