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Prof. Taft: I was going to say that, so far as size, shape, color, and 

 propagation go, it compares with our Kalamazoo — in the same season; 

 so far as I can see, it is very much like Kalamazoo. You are familiar 

 with that or with Bronson's; they are practically the same. 



Mr. Pitt: I would like to inquire of the Chairman if he is acquainted 

 with a peach called Early Canada? 



Mr. Morrill: I have a thousand trees of what Mr. Harrison, who sent 

 them out, says are Early Canada, but it is not what he has sent out fre- 

 quently as Early Canada, because it is a freestone. 



Prof. Taft: We have a half dozen or so trees that came from Mr. 

 Harrison, and their fruit is not quite free. 



Mr. Morrill: Well, just about like Lewis. 



Prof. Taft: Yes. 



Mr. Morrill : That it what I mean. I call it freestone because you can 

 take the pit out. 



Prof. Taft: It is a hardier peach than Alexander. 



Mr. Morrill : It is a hardy peach and freer from rot than Alexander, 

 and it is a good producer — handsome, as well as a little Inclined to 

 a smooth skin. 



Prof. Taft: Yes. 



Mr. Morrill : Well, I have a thousand trees of that variety and I like 

 them. 



Mr. Pitt: I had a few and they came into bearing in season and 

 were a very pretty peach; they were not clingstones. Do you know 

 anything of the Fitzgerald variety? 



Mr. Morrill: Yes, sir; I think I have the first hundred trees that came 

 to Michigan, and I like them very much. They are a peach of the Craw- 

 ford type, fully as large, ripen between the two Crawfords; are hand- 

 somer, have a smaller pit; the trees are robust, and the hardiest tree in 

 bud, when the buds were in normal condition as they were two years ago, 

 that I had in my lot — the hardiest fruit bud. 



Q: HoW' about the fuz? 



Mr. Morrill : Well, I do not see it; do you? 



Prof. Taft: I have not seen the fruit Michigan grown. 



Mr. Morrill : Now, Mr. Hale is the only man I ever heard suggest that, 

 and I got a letter from Prof. Beach this year saying there are now two or 

 three kinds of Fitzgerald out — had two or three descriptions. Mine are 

 as free as any of the peaches of that season. I never saw a more brilliant 

 peach; it is of very high quality, and if it lacks in any way it is for shiiv 

 l)ing long distances. It is not going to compare well with Elberta for 

 that purpose, but it shows a strength of foliage this season that pleases 

 me. Along the lake shore we suffered severely with curl; I never saw 

 anything like it, and Fitzgerald came through the best of anything 1 had. 

 That was a new experience with me, and I have marked it up in favor of 

 Fitzgerald. I do not think it is going to be as heavy a producer as some 

 of the varieties we have, like Gold Drop and Lewis and a few more of that 

 character, but of the large class of peaches of the Crawford type it cer- 

 tainly is the superior of any of wiiich I know, except Elberta, and has over 

 Elberta the advantage to which I have referred; while I presume that for 

 size Elberta has an advantage over that. 



Q: What is the time of ripening? 



