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can be made by the selection of the hardiest varieties. As you get farther 

 nortli, j^ou will have to pay more attention to that than you do in the 

 lower part of the State. We have three or four kinds we can rely on. 

 They fruited two years ago after the freeze, and they have fruited other 

 years when they have had no chance at all. The Lewis Seedling, strictly 

 a Michigan peach, a white peach, but the quality is good, is one. 



Member: I live about eight miles north of Mr. Henry; we are nearer 

 the lake than he, and we get good peaches generally four seasons out 

 of five, in hardy varieties. 



Member: We have peach growers here that, I think, ordinarily aver- 

 age about one good crop in five years. 



Professor Fulton: The Kalamazoo is another hardy variety, and is 

 as largely planted as any variety we have. It is a yellow free-stone p"each, 

 and one of our standard varieties, ripening in September. It is not quite 

 so hardy as the Lewis Seedling, but it is a hardy peach of a good quality. 

 Hill's Chili is another very hardy variety, but the Chili requires rather 

 moist soil, or it will groAV very small and inferior. 



Member: How about the Fitzgerald? 



Professor Fulton: The Fitzgerald is one tha't we have not had much 

 experience with, and I could not say as to that. 



Mr. Swaim: Do you know about whether thej^ bore after the freeze 

 of 1899? 



Professor Fulton: I do not know as to that. The trees must have 

 been very young at that time; if I remember rightly we had no Fitzgerald. 

 Our trees did not bear following the freeze six or eight years ago. The 

 Gold Drop is one of the very hardiest we have; it ripens later than any 

 of those other kinds we have mentioned. 



Member: How about the Crawford? 



Professor Fulton: The Crawford is one of the very tenderest we 

 have. 



Member: The Alexander? 



Professor Fulton: Of the Alexander there are very few planted. 

 They come in the market in competition with southern peaches and they 

 are hard to handle; they are tender and they rot so quickly that they 

 are not being planted any more to any extent. 



Member: What can you say as to the New Prolific? 



Professor Fulton: The New Prolific is not identical with the Kala- 

 mazoo, but is very similar to it. 



