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Chili out, jet lots of men would not do business without it. Our experi- 

 ence is, that it is some years a most magnificent fruit, and the next year, 

 perhaps, after the pit has formed and before the fruit ripens, it will dry 

 down; and the last two years we have had the most perfect conditions for 

 that class of peaches — dry, sunshiny weather, every condition favoring 

 that particular fruit, and yet it has been poor. I do not know what the 

 trouble is (perhaps some of our scientific men have a name for it), this 

 blackened condition of the skin, but Chili is very susceptible to it. 

 Following Kalamazoo, I should place Elberta, as head and shoul- 

 ders above anything that comes at that season. But in spite of the fact 

 that it is a great grower, and hardy, and a magnificent peach, it is quite 

 subject to curl-leaf. Prof. Taft will tell you that they can control curl- 

 leaf with Bordeaux mixture. Now, these are productive peaches that I 

 have mentioned. Next, I can not name a peach that will quite satisfy me, 

 but the Stevens has been a wonderful peach along our shore. Beers 

 Smock we like better. It is productive, more yellow, less red, and the yel- 

 low is not of the greenish color of Smock. It has the fault that all of 

 the Smock typ<; have, but if you practice proper pruning you can carry a 

 pretty big load of fruit. Most of these kinds are excellent orchard trees. 



Mr. Bird: How does Gold Drop compare with Kalamazoo for 

 season and productiveness? 



Mr. Morrill: It is a later peach considerably; it is just before 

 Smock. Smock laps on Gold Drop, and for productiveness it will 

 out-yield anything I know of; and when properly thinned responds as 

 nicely as anything I know of. The tree, too, is fully as strong a grower as 

 we have, and I know of nothing hardier. 



Q. What is your experience with Jacques Rareripe? 



A. I wouldn't have anything to do with that. The trees seem to root 

 near the surface, and suffer from drought more quickly than anything I 

 have in mind, yet that might not be your experience. They are very vari- 

 able in size on the same tree, and give a large proportion of culls. Take 

 a peach like Elberta, where they are reasonably thin on the trees, and 

 there wouldn't be a second-class peach. Kalamazoo is remarkably 

 uniform. 



Mr. J. L. Beal : What do you call a reasonable thinning? 



A. Not to have any peach nearer than eight inches to any other peach. 



Mr. Greening : I want to mention a peach, in the introduction of which 

 the firm of Greening Bros, of Monroe, of which I am a member, are inter- 

 ested. It is the New Prolific. I wish to take this occasion to explain and 

 describe this peach. It ripens about the 10th of September; is a very vig- 

 orous grower, more so than any variety at present grown; it seems to be 

 hardy and an early bearer. It is of the Crawford variety, highly colored, 

 and its flesh is golden yellow. It has a small pit, and is very delicious. 

 It has a very large leaf, largest of any peach I ever saw, and is very highly 

 colored. It has been fruited in different parts of this and other states, 

 and has shown itself to be a market variety of good merit. In reference 

 to Hill's Chili, I wish to say, in the eastern part of Michigan it is not as 

 desirable as in the western or interior part of the state. With us it does 

 not hold its own with Late Crawford, from the fact that it does not 

 color up. It colors very beautifully in the western part. 



Mr. Morrill : When it does color at all. 



