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Prof. VanDeman: It is a yellow peach, of fair size, quite good quality, 

 and distinctly freestone, and it ripens about with Alexander and Amsden. 

 Compared with them, it is about the same size. I have not seen it in 

 quantities, here and there only, a few specimens from different sections 

 of the country. I have not seen the trees in fruit. 1 do not know the 

 orchard behavior of the tree from actual observation. I have only hear- 

 say information. I have talked with the North 'Carolina men who are 

 growing it, and my neighbor, Mr. Charles Wright, in the Chesapeake 

 peninsula, says that it is a very good orchard tree so far as he can see. 

 He has not tested it with a big crop until this year, when it appears as- 

 if there would be a very good crop. I do not know of any peach I 

 think more of than that, as an early peach. There is another peach I 

 have found in Kansas. It is a late peach of about the quality and size 

 and color of Oldmixon, but it ripens about with Heath Cling, and I hardly 

 know of a peach of better quality. It is a bright red with a greenish-white 

 grain, and for late marketing it is certainly a fine thing. It is a peach 

 very few people know about, and I would not advise planting an orchard 

 of it — might plant a row, but still it is one of the things you should" look 

 after. 



Mr. Morrill : Have you seen the Carman? 



A. My only information regarding that is from Texas. I 'believe it came 

 from Texas. I have only hearsay evidence. I want to say further that 

 this Triumph peach is of the same general character as Elberta. So i» 

 Carman, and the coming peaches, of the south especially, are of that 

 class. 



PEAR CULTURE IN BERRIEN COUNTY. 

 BY MR. GEO. F. COMINGS. 



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It is related of Sir Isaac Newton that toward the close of his life he 

 spoke of himself as being like a little child, picking up pebbles along 

 the shore of the great ocean. The great unknown which he had failed to 

 learn lay before him, 



I think, after twenty-five years of fruit culture in Berrien county, what 

 I don't know about fruitgrowing is more than what I do know. It would 

 be easier to speak of what I don't know than of what I do. Many things 

 which I thought I knew a few years ago, I conclude I do not know, after 

 all. Perhaps things I think I know now I shall find I was mistaken in 

 hereafter. In regard to the possibilities of pear-growing in Berrien 

 county, I would say that though the county is not large, yet I think its 

 possibilities are great. 



The gentlemen who took the drive through the country this morning 

 saw a great many acres which are still in a poor state of culture. Some 

 are devoted to farm cro])s, acres just as good for peach or jjcar or grape 

 culture as many which we saw devoted to that purpose. I believe much 

 of this land will some day be devoted to fruit-raising. When I said the 

 possibilities were great, I did not mean the possibility of making money 

 rapidly and easily. 



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