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Late is some better, but I would plant but few of these for profit, unless 

 in unusually favorable localities for the peach. 



There are several other popular and standard sorts that I am fruiting 

 quite largely, that I would not plant again. Among these are Hill's Chili, 

 Jacques' Rareripe, Moutain Rose, Oldmixon, Alexander, etc., etc. These, 

 except the latter, are good peaches under favorable circumstances, but for 

 profit they have too many faults. 



To illustrate, we will take the old standard sort, Jacques' Rareripe, some- 

 times a beautiful peach, on young trees especially; but, as a rule, if we 

 bring in, say, five bushels, we may get two bushels of first-class peaches, 

 two of seconds, and one of worthless culls. 



Now, this is too many poor peaches. The same fault is true of Crawford's 

 Early, together with the fault of its being tender in the tree. 



In planting 900 trees for market, I would select about the following list, 

 named in their order of ripening: 25 Hale's, 100 Lewis, 300 Kalamazoo, 

 300 Golden Drop, 100 Smock, 75 Sal way. 



It will be observed that in this list I include no white peaches ripening 

 after the first yellow peach. 



Out of hundreds of orders for peaches the past season, only one order 

 was for white peaches. 



The above list has the merit of being hardy, regular bearers, and the 

 fruit, although not of the largest, is of good size and uniform, producing 

 but very few cull peaches. It also covers nearly the entire season. 



I will give one comparative illustration. I have an eight-year-old orchard, 

 in which I have some twenty varieties. There are fifty trees in a row. The 

 lay of the land and the soil are uniform as nearly as possible. I have the 

 following varieties, side by side: Kalamazoo, Jacques, Golden Drop, and 

 Hill's Chili. There never has been a year of peaches that either one of the 

 rows of Kalamazoo or of Golden Drop was not worth much more than both 

 rows of Jacques and Hill's Chili combined. 



Of course, every one should plant a few of the finer qualities of peach, 

 for table use, like Mountain Rose, Crawford's Early, George Fourth, etc. 



President Lyon : Most growers of the peach, very properly, plant for 

 money; but others should not plant in the same way for home use, but set 

 the better varieties instead. The same is true of all other fruits. The 

 better sorts are likely to be delicate in constitution. They should not 

 be planted with the idea of profit, but because one wishes to get something 

 fit to eat. It is all right to plant for commercial purposes, but even this 

 may be overdone, and varieties set which are too poor for even what are 

 called " market purposes." 



Mr. Knowland: "What is the Kalamazoo peach? 



Mr. Morkill: I have fruited it twice. It is a large yellow peach, with 

 bright red flush, ripening with Late Crawford; it is uniform in size and 

 from medium to large, of regular shape and good quality, the best of its 

 season. It has so far been hardy. I do not think it is a "long shipper," 

 but it meets Mr. Lyon's idea of a market fruit. The original tree stood 

 in the back yard of Mr. Stearns' house in Kalamazoo, a sprout from an 

 old stump. Seeing its good points Mr. Stearns propagated from it. It 



