. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. OHIO OHIO 1123 satisfactory below the central portion of the state. Kome Beauty is the leading sort in the southern part and is most at home in the counties lying along the Ohio river. Ben Davis is well adapted to the same section also. The Willow Twig is very satisfactory along the river in the eastern part of
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. OHIO OHIO 1123 satisfactory below the central portion of the state. Kome Beauty is the leading sort in the southern part and is most at home in the counties lying along the Ohio river. Ben Davis is well adapted to the same section also. The Willow Twig is very satisfactory along the river in the eastern part of the state. Grimes Golden, Jonathan,York Imperial, and Hubbardston are found to be very satisfactory winter sorts in nearly all parts of M 1 C H I G'. 1^^ Areas of largest peach productiou. ^^ Areas of largest celery and onion productioji. H^ Areas of largest grape production. 1518, Ohio, to show horticultural regions. the state. Of early varieties, essentially the same sorts are grown in all sections. The conditions for successful peach culture are more favorable along the shore of Lake Erie than any other part of the state. Ottawa county is the center of peach culture in this section, Catawba Island taking the lead. In this locality the vineyards have been almost wholly replaced by peach orchards. The same state of affairs exists in a less marked degree on the adjacent islands and peninsula. Athens, Muskingum and Coshocton counties, in the southern and central parts of the state, produce large quantities of this fruit also. There are about half a dozen other counties in which peach cul- ture is made a special feature of fruit-growing, but the industry is not developed to the extent that it is in those above named. In 1896 the total peach crop of the state was nearly 2, bushels, and of this Athens, Mus- kingum, Coshocton and Ottawa counties produced more than one-fourth. Mountain Rose, Oldmixon, Elberta, Smock, and Salway are the varieties most commonly grown. There are
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