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AMERICAN FOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA. 
BY GABRIEL HIESTER, HARRISBURG. 
1. Tlie foot hills of all our mountain ranges appear to be well adapted 
to the production of all our common fruits, especially the apple, pear, peach 
and grape. 
2. Peach growers appear to favor the ironstone land, sufficiently elevated 
to escape the fogs that hang over the valleys, and which frequently cause 
loss of fruit from late frost, except in the immediate vicinity of large bodies 
of water, as lakes and broad rivers. 
Apples and pears require a richer soil than peaches, and less elevation as 
they do not run the same risk from frosts. Good orchard land can be bought 
along the foot hills in Perry, Snyder, Juniata. Mifflin and York counties at 
prices ranging from $8 to $15 per acre. I have no knowledge of a bearing 
orchard having been sold. 
3. Apples — Oldenburg**, Early Harvest*. Yellow Transparent*, Summer 
Rambo**, Maiden Blush*, Smokehouse**, Baldwin**, Northern Spy*, York 
Imperial**, York Stripe*. Pears — Bartlett**, Angouleme**, Seckel*, Howell*, 
Lawrence*, Clairgeau*. Peaches— Elberta**, Mt. Rose**, Crawford Late**, 
Wonderful*, Albright*, Globe*, Stump*, Oldmixon*. 
4. Most orchards are cultivated in crops until they are three years old. 
Potatoes, strawberries, peas and sometimes corn are grown in the young 
orchards. 
5. Fruit growers are only beginning to use cover crops. 
6. Fertilizers rich in potash appear to give the best results, and are prin- 
cipally used. Those brands which contain two parts of potash to one of 
phosphoric acid seem to be most in demand. 
7. I have no experience with new varieties. 
8. The codling moth, curculio, peach and apple borers, and peach root 
aphis seem to have done most damage in this section. As usual, pear blight, 
apple scab, mildew and rot in grapes, curl leaf and rot in peaches have been 
most prevalent. 
9. Not practiced at all in this neighborhood. 
11. No fruits are evaporated that I know of. 
12. I can see no difference in peaches this year, all varieties appear to have 
suffered alike. The number of fruit buds that escaped appeared to depend 
more upon the air currents than upon varieties. 
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. 
BY A. I. LOOP, NORTH EAST. 
1. The northwestern counties seem to be well adapted to most kinds of 
fruit growing. Erie county, however, is most favored in this respect. Its 
location in regard to Lake Erie makes it adapted to a much greater variety 
than the less favorably situated counties. This is especially true in the 
matter of grapes; a failure in the grape belt (a strip 3 to 5 miles wide 
bordering Lake Erie) has never been known. Strawberries, raspberries, etc., 
are also grown to greater perfection in the “belt” than any other point in 
the northwestern counties. Apples do well in all the northwest section, as 
