The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-28
WHERE PEACHES MAY BE
GROWN SUCCESSFULLY
IN GEORGIA

The Georgia State Horticultural
Society divides the state into, four
sections, known as the northern, the
middle. the southern and the coastal
regions. The northern section is
,, bounded by line drawn south of the
following counties: HARRISON. Pauld-
ing, Cobb Milton, Forsyth, Hall,
Banks and Franklin. The middle re-
gion is between the lines south of the
above counties and line south of
the following counties: Clay, Ran
dolph. Terrell, Lee, Dooly. Wilcox,
Telfair, Montgomery, Tattnall, Bull
loch and Efingham. The coastal
section is composed of the counties
of Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIn-
tosh, Glynn and Camden. The rest
of the state is known as the southern
section. Various types of peaches
are adapted to all sections Of Geor-
gia though it is probable that the
central and northern sections of the
state should be considered the peach
growing regions The first and main
peach section of Georgia was around
Fort Valley and Marshallville This
development extended south of AM
CIRCUS. 1t has now gone out along
the Central Of Georgia Railroad from
the Fort Valley section toward Col
umbus
Another peach section has develop
ed north OF Macon toward Monticel-
10. We find peaches also being
grown in large amounts along the
Georgia Railroad around Sparta.
An early peach section to develop
was in the northwestern sections of
the state between Cedartown and
Chattanooga. One of the most pros
porous and forward peach growing
regions is to be found on the South
ern Railroad between Lula and Cor
nelia. The development of peach
growing centers in South Georgia has
been rather slow. Some rather large
peach orchards were set this fall
year ago, but the unprecedented cold
weather of last winter seriously in
jured the young paintings. There
are some varieties, however, which
will undoubtedly be found we'll adapt
ed to the Southern sections of the
state
The fault line runs from Columbus
to Macon, Macon to Mil1edgeville.
Milledgeville to Augusta, and by
studying the peach areas of the state
it will be found that the majority of
them are north of this line. The
Fort ValleyM arshallv;lle area, which
is just south of this line, has condi-
tons very similar in many respects
to the territory north of the fault
line. There is no reason why thous-
ands of acres heretofore devoted to
other crops, mainly cotton, should
not be turned into peach orchards, as
many small farmer is naturally 60
ing to look for something to take
the place of the cotton that he has
normally been planting, when the
boil weevil necessitates a curtailment
of his cotton acreage The peach
seems to be so universally adapted
to the general Georgia conditions,
that it is worth the time of any
thoughtful agriculturist to give Sc
rious consideration to the develop
ment of small orchard in conjunc-
ton with his general farm opera
tons.
There is hardly a state in the
union that can boast of as many hor-
ticultural products as Georgia, and
the greatest of these at this time is
the peach. More than an ordinary
profit can be easily secured by the
production of this fruit provided it
is carried on in business like man
ner. The varied adaptability of
peaches to Georgia conditions will
undoubtedly prove great benefit to