A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 68.—Citrns fruits can withstand only a few degrees of frost. About three-fifthsof the acreage is in California and nearly two-fifths in Florida. There are a few orch-ards in the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, in the Brownsville, Tex., district, and nearPhoenix, Aiiz., and recently hardy Satsuma orange trees have been planted along theGulf coast in eastern Texas, southern Mississippi, and Alabama. Lemons are practicallyconfined to California, grapefruit largely to Florida, while oranges are grown in bothS
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 68.—Citrns fruits can withstand only a few degrees of frost. About three-fifthsof the acreage is in California and nearly two-fifths in Florida. There are a few orch-ards in the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, in the Brownsville, Tex., district, and nearPhoenix, Aiiz., and recently hardy Satsuma orange trees have been planted along theGulf coast in eastern Texas, southern Mississippi, and Alabama. Lemons are practicallyconfined to California, grapefruit largely to Florida, while oranges are grown in bothStates. The principal pear districts are the Ontario shore counties and the Hudson Val-ley of New York, southwestern Michigan along the lake, the foothUls of central andsouthern California, western Oregon, and the Yakima Valley of Washington. Fie. 69.—Only three kinds of nuts are produced on a commercial scale in the UnitedStates—pecans, walnuts, and amends. The pecan is native to the lowe? MississippiValley, and the largest acreage is found in a belt which extends from central MSom-iacross Oklahoma to south-central Texas. Recently extensive planting of^an tfe^s has^?n^S-i?i?5! Wt ^oa^tal plain In Georgia, the Carolinas, Alatema, MlssisslS>i and^^rth-5^^ flofila- Almonds and walnuts have been introduceii from the MediteSnSn reelonand their production is practically confined to California exceot for irpon<.lfl?rnhio tn^J^age Of walnuts in the wfilamette Valley of Oregon and adjoS^g coSn«S^n Washin|to^ A Graphic Svmvmary of American Agriculture. 469 TT STRAWBERRY ^ 1919 CREAGE EACH DOT HEPRESEH100 ACRES THE CHOP Aflu IT REiWElU TS ~^STRAWBERRY iCanlinuHl) 1 \i C /STRAWBERRy ACREAGE, 1919 ^^^ I —\. —y —- \ :;.*:vl I m jIl~mM *••?• rh- Pf\ -L-- n. STATE ACRES U ...WU .. !^„£:
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