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yet the superiority is so small that 3'ou cannot depend upon it for a 

 crop, and these so-called Iron Clads in bud generally prove no better 

 ,than their brethren. The All-wise Creator, when He made man, 

 gave him a variety of tastes, and He also, for to meet these different 

 tastes and appetites, created also a variety of peaches — some white- 

 fieshed, some yellow, some cling and some free stones, so that this 

 matter of taste, or, rather, the peach which satisfies the appetite best, 

 is one that can only be solved by the individual who consumes the 

 fruit. In my list of varieties to plant I shall include some of the best 

 known varieties, both yellow and white, cling and free stones, and 

 think they will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the ordinary 

 planter. Plant very few very early peaches, either for home use or 

 market ; they are disappointments, both in quality and keeping, nearly 

 all generally being easy to decay and rot — all watery and insipid at that. 

 For family use I would plant a few trees only. For July ripening 

 Sneed, Amsden and Alexander; for August ripening, Foster, Cham- 

 pion, Crosby and Elberta ; for September peaches plant O. M: Cling, 

 Miller Cling, Stump the World, Heath Cling, and Smack ; for October 

 plant Salwa3^ This list will give a succession of peaches from middle 

 of July to middle of October, a period of three months, which about 

 covers the peach season along the Missouri river. For a commercial 

 orchard I would cut the list down to Champion, Elberta, Stump the 

 World, Miller Cling, Heath Cling and Salway. Now some of my fellow 

 fruit growers may ask, well how about the Dewey Cling ? you have 

 left it out of the list. Yes that is a fact and for this reason, I lost the 

 original tree the summer of '99, either from the preceding hard 

 winter or the severe dehorning that I gave it in the spring, it died any- 

 way in August, and as yet I have never seen a matured peach grown 

 on younger trees. But now^ have a number of young trees that have on 

 their first crop, and at this writing look as promising as could be ex- 

 pected under the'drougthy conditions of the weather, no rain having 

 fallen since April i6th. If these mature and compare favorably with the 

 fruit which grew on the original tree and I can succeed in winning a 

 medal at Buffalo as I did at Omaha in '98, then I shall not hesitate to 

 place it where the Heath Cling now stands, as the most valuable white 

 coming peach of the day, and my confidence in it to supercede that old 

 variety, will not be shaken until it proves its self inferior by actual 

 comparison. 



. , LIST OF VARIETIES OF PEACH. 



Major Holsinger of Rosedale, Kan.— "This is a list that I would 

 suggest to take you through the entire season : Sneed, Triumph, 

 Family Favorite, Salway and Champion." 



