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AN/KALS Otf HORTICULTURE. 



that in years of poor European crops, these continental markets 

 can be opened with profit. 



Pears.— The pear crop was about three-fourths of an 

 average yield, the country over, with the heaviest falling off in 

 the interior region where the apple crop was lightest. The 

 November crop statistics give the following figures, as com- 

 pared with an average full crop : 





1892 



1893 





1892 



1893 



JVIai up 



New Hampshire, 



94 



82 



.Arkansas, 



45 



60 



90 



81 



Tennessee, 



50 



46 



Vermont. 



79 



63 



West Virginia, 



42 



43 



Massachusetts, 



75 



88 



Kentucky, 



46 



43 



Rhode Island, 



90 



50 



Ohio, 



56 



49 



Connecticut, 



78 



63 



Michigan, 



75 



63 



New York, 



65 



69 



Indiana, 



50 



43 



New Jersey, 



84 



69 



Illinois, 



40 



41 



Pennsylvania, 



64 



71 



Wisconsin, 



70 



33 



Delaware, 



45 



75 



Iowa, 





40 



Maryland, 



32 



72 



Missouri, 



40 



32 



Virginia, 

 North Carolina, 



35 



74 



Kansas, 



25 



26 



51 



74 



Nebraska, 





46 



South Carolina, 



70 



77 



Colorado, 



70 



58 



Georgia, 



70 



69 



New Mexico, 



83 



67 



Florida, 



75 



89 



Arizona, 





50 



Alabama, 



73 



61 



Utah, 



50 



74 



Mississippi, 



65 



68 



Nevada, 





35 



Louisana, 





68 



Idaho, 





98 



Texas, 



61 



75 



Washington, 



80 



77 



California, 



80 



95 



Oregon, 



60 



83 



Peaclies. — There was a good yield of peaches throughout 

 the country, and the Chesapeake peninsula had a very heavy 

 crop, ranking fully up to ninety or one-hundred as compared 

 with a full crop. The peach crop of the country was proba- 

 bly never so well distributed to various markets as during 1893, 

 and while the jn'ice was low throughout the season, the returns 

 were generally brisk and, considering the general condition of 

 trade, were satisfactory. 



Peaches on the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula. — The 

 most prominent peach area of the year was that comprising the 

 Chesapeake peninsula, which had failed of a good crop for sev- 

 eral years. The following correspondence from Wilmington, 

 Delaware, under date of September 13, is a graphic description 

 of a busy season : 



"The work of harvesting and marketing Delaware's greatest 

 peach crop is nearly finished. The largest and what was con- 

 sidered the wildest estimate ever made on a peach crop has been 

 realized. There is now no doubt that the entire crop will 

 exceed 6,000,000 baskets. It is right to say, however, that this 

 is not all a Delaware peach crop. It has been gathered from 

 Kent and Sussex counties in Delaware, and from the Maryland 

 counties of Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot. These are the 

 central counties of the Delaware and Maryland peninsula. 



