PEACHES: PRCDUCTION ESTIMATES, ETC. — a: 
parts of that county, as weil as about Isle La Motte in Grand Isle 
County. This location is on an island im Lake Champlain. 
Varieties —No definite suggestions concerning varieties are offered 
aside from the obvious fact that only the hardiest sorts should be 
selected, and even these are likely to prove very uncertain as te crop 
production. 
MASSACHUGHTTS. 
Distribution.—Peaches are somewhat widely distributed in Massa- 
chusetts, except perhaps in the western part of the State. The prin- 
cipal areas of commercial production are within the more important 
apple-growing districts. However, not many peaches are shipped 
long distances even from the larger orchards, local markets absorb- 
ing most of the fruit. The principal localities which admit of 
definite designation as peach-producing centers are enumerated below. 
The largest production is probably in the central part of the State in 
Worcester County, Warren in the southwestern part of the county, 
Grafton in the southeastern, and Bolton in the east-central part bemg 
community centers of some promimence. The Bolton section is 
practically a part of the Littleton and Marlboro sections in the 
western part of Middlesex County, in which peaches are locally im- 
portant. They are also grown more or less at other peints in this 
county and in Essex County, the northeasternmost county of the 
State, centering in a general way in the locality of Haverhill and 
West Newbury. Small orchards of local importance are found at 
various points in all the other counties in the eastern and south- 
eastern parts of the State. Farther west, Wilbraham in Hampden 
County and Amherst in Hampshire County, with various other local 
points, may also be included in the present inventory of smal! pro- 
ducing centers. In some sections peaches were formerly interplanted 
in apple orchards, but such peach interests have now largely gone 
out as the apple trees have developed. 
Varieties —The Greensboro, Carman, Champion, Belle, and El- 
berta constitute the principal sorts grown. 
RHODE ISLAND, 
Distribution.—There are no special centers of peach production 
im Rhode Island, but orchards planted for commercial purposes oceur 
more or less widely throughout the State, the larger orchards occur- 
ring in Newport, Providence, Washington, and Bristol Counties, in 
the order named. 
1 Concerning the relative hardiness of varieties, the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station (Circular 15, revised) states that the five varieties of peaches most hardy in 
wood are the Crosby, Chili, Stevens, Gold Drop, and Eiberta. The Crawfords are con- 
sidered most tender in wood. The five varieties of peaches most hardy in bud are the 
Crosby, Chili, Triumph, Gold Drop, and Stevens. The five most tender in bud are the 
Early Crawford, Late Crawford, Chairs, Reeves, and Hiberta. 
