12 BULLETIN 806, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
V arieties.—The varieties grown are substantially the same as those 
planted in Connecticut and Massachusetts. 
CONNECTICUT. 
Distribution —Feach growing is more or less widely distributed 
in most parts of Connecticut, except in Litchfield County, in the 
extreme northwestern part of the State, where few peaches are 
grown. The district of particular importance commercially, how- 
ever, is the central part of the State, in the Connecticut River valley 
from about the region of Hartford southward and including areas 
in most parts of New Haven County. Representative towns in this 
district may be named, as follows: Farmington, Glastonbury, and 
Southington, in Hartford County; Durham and Middlefield, in Mid- 
dlesex County; Cheshire, Guilford, Milford, Oxford, and Walling- 
ford, in New Haven County; and Greenwich, Norwalk, and other 
towns in the southern part of Fairfield County adjacent to the shore 
of Long Island Sound. In New Haven County the towns of Guil- 
ford and Milford, above named, adjoin the Sound. Peaches are also 
grown more or less in other towns similarly located between Green- 
wich and Guilford. ; . 
Varieties—Many growers in Connecticut select varieties with a 
view to marketing peaches during as long a period as possible. The 
principal sorts planted are the Greensboro, Waddell, Carman, Hiley, 
Champion, Belle, Early Crawford, Hale (J. H.), Elberta, Frances, 
Stump, Late Crawford, Fox, Stevens, Iron Mountain, and Salwey. 
MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
NEW YORK, 
Distribution—Though New York is one of the large peach- 
producing States, the districts in which the principal interests are 
. located are more clearly defined than in many other States. By far 
the largest output is from the Lake Ontario shore district from 
Oswego County westward to and including Niagara County. This 
district consists at most points of a narrow strip only a few miles 
wide, where the influence of the lake so modifies the climatic con- 
ditions at certain periods as to make them especially favorable for 
peach growing. At a few points this favored belt extends into the 
northern parts of the second tier of counties, as, for instance, in 
Livingston County, in which some peaches are produced. This is 
by far the largest commercial peach district in the State. Another 
district is that immediately surrounding the “finger lakes,” in 
central-western New York, where at various points peaches are grown 
in limited quantities. A third district of some importance is in the 
Hudson River valley and comprises locations along the river in 
