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Cecil sandy loam is well adapted to peaches and 

 small fruits. On the higher slopes pears also do well. 



Cecil clay loam is a reddish yellow or light brown 

 heavy loam with an average depth of 10 inches. The subsoil 

 consists of reddish-yellow or light brown heavy loam grading 

 into clay loam at an average depth of 30 inches. From 10 to 

 30 per cent of stones and bowlders, principally syenite, are 

 commonly present in both soil and sub-soil. The surface is 

 moderately to steeply rolling, with occasional small level 

 areas. The soil is residual being derived chiefly from 

 syenith, but in small local areas, other metamorphic rocks 

 have entered into its formation. 



Cecil clay loam is not mapped in the areas which 



have been surveyed in Virginia. However, a number of growers 



in the Piedmont region described such a clay loam in their 



replies to my question. The data which follows shows the 



adaptation of varieties to Cecil clay loam. 



Variety No. of growers reporting it. 



York 12 



Wine sap 9 



Ben Davis 7 



Grimes 5 



Arkansas 4 



Stayman Wine sap 3 



Black Ben Davis 3 



Rome 2 



Bonum 2 



Jonathan 2 



Albemarle 2 



