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Mr. Bramau: I would like to ask the color of Chair. 



Mr. Kiehl: It is a fine yellow peach with a good bloom upon it. 



The President: Has it any characteristics that correspond to other 

 known varieties? 



Mr. Riehl: It does not belong to the Crawford type at all. 



The President: Does it belong to the 8mock type? Mr. Riehl: It 

 is a much better peach than Smock. 



The President: Is it of that kind of growth — oblong? Mr. Riehl: 

 Yes, it is rather an oblong, large peach, and the fruit is spread all 

 over the tree. In this respect, as I said before, it is much like Elberta. 

 ft is of uniform, nice color, a large peach. 



The President: A reliable bearer? Mr. Riehl: Yes, sir. 



The President: When does it ripen? Mr. Riehl: It ripens, with 

 us, in September. 



The President: Comparatively, please? Mr. Riehl: It will ripen 

 about two weeks ahead of Smock. 



The President: How long behind Elberta? Mr. Riehl: Well, I should 

 say about a couple of weeks after. 



Mr. Rork: With us, on the shore, there is not a handsomer peach 

 in form or color, nor one of better size. It ripens just out of reach 

 of Smock. 



The President: With Gold Drop, then? Mr. Rork: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Braman: Chair, with me, is about the time of Chili, and it is 

 .a bright-red peach, nearly as handsome in color. 



The President: We all understand that, in Michigan, and I pre- 

 sume in other states, there is great difficult.v in knowing just exactly 

 what 3"0u have. Now, I never saw that better illustrated than at the 

 ]\Iichigan state fair two years ago. Four distinct types of Elberta 

 were on the table, and no two of them were ever propagated from the 

 same stock, but had been sold for Elberta. Each man, when he came 

 there, supposed he had the genuine; and one man was wondering what 

 all those Elbertas were doing there when his were ripe and gone a 

 month ago, and he had the finest crop he ever saw. That illustrates 

 that it is very difficult for a man who is not well informed to know 

 whether he has pure stock. Substitution is very common, and often 

 our ideas are at fault owing to that, and sometimes that accounts 

 for quite a difference of opinion. 



Mr. Braman: Those trees were from N. G. Hilton. He has been 

 raising trees a number of years. They began bearing when they vere 

 three years old. He has been cultivating them and selling them through 

 the state; and whether they are of the same variety as the gentlemen 

 iiave been describing, I could not say, but he has been selling them 

 as Chair the last few years. 



Mr. Hamilton: It woukl api)ear to me that Mr. liraman's trees are 

 not Chair. Wherever I. have seen it, this peach has ripened some time 

 after Chili, right with Smock, later than Gold Drop. I would call 

 it a later peach than Gold Drop. If persons who speak of peaches 

 would tell of the glands it would help much. I would like to ask 

 .Mr. Braman if he noticed the glands on those trees? 

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