Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1905 . Everbearing Peach. PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 499 than the so-called Persian group, to which most of our oldercultivated varieties belong. Hunters and trappers, and even the Indians, appear to have aided inthe dissemination of these peaches in many sections, so that the earlysettlers in many parts of the Mississippi Valley and the Upper Lakeregions found the type so firmly established in certain localities as toappear indigenous. From the Gulf to the Great Lakes it was thor-oughly established by the beginning of the nineteenth century,
Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1905 . Everbearing Peach. PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 499 than the so-called Persian group, to which most of our oldercultivated varieties belong. Hunters and trappers, and even the Indians, appear to have aided inthe dissemination of these peaches in many sections, so that the earlysettlers in many parts of the Mississippi Valley and the Upper Lakeregions found the type so firmly established in certain localities as toappear indigenous. From the Gulf to the Great Lakes it was thor-oughly established by the beginning of the nineteenth century, reach-ing its northern limit of planting in orchard form, so far as known tothe writer, in the so-called Indian peach orchard on the KalamazooRiver, near the present village of Douglas, Mich., where a bearingorchard of 300 trees was found by the settlers when they reachedthere, about 1834. In the mountain regions of southwestern Virginia,western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee there are numerousseedling orchards of the type still in existence, and it i
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