FRUIT CATALOGUE. 

 SECTION XII.— PEACHES— Continued. 



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Remarks. 



A large and showy cling of g^d quality. 



One of the finest for homo use as a dessert peach. 



Highly valued as a dessert peach. Comes hefore the preceding. 



Ripens in advance of Hale or Beatrice. Very high quality. At Lawton 



said to sell well. 

 The largest and best of the'yellow fleshed clings. Does not sell well. 



An Allegan Co. seedling. A market peach. 



Valued in northeastern Lenawee. 



A beautiful and promising peach. May be valuable for market if pro- 

 ductive. 

 Valued for preserving and canning on account of its color. 



A valuable market variety. Highly prized where fully proved, 



A variety originating from Old Red Cheek, and promising to be superior. 



Promising market peach. Received from Pennsylvania under this name. 



Origin and history unknown. 

 Where a cling is desired, this is one of the finest of its season. 



A very old variety, which still hold a high position as a market peach. 



One of the finest amateur varieties. 



Originated many years since by the late Isaac PuUen. Somewhat grown 



at Douglas, Allegan county. 

 Much like Early Crawford, and more desirable where it will'ripen with 



certainty. 

 An old sort. The parent of Crawford's Early and Late. 



A new and valuable variety. A few days later than Early Crawford, and 



less acid. 

 An excellent very early sort ; lacks color. Fruit large and beautiful. At 



Lawton very profitable. 

 Promising amateur peach. Adaptation to market yet undetermined. 



Will only ripen at the south with certainty; fails in unfavorable seasons. 



The finest of canning peaches, without either red or brown at the pit. 

 Occasionally a faint red cheek. 



One of the latest profitable market peaches in Southern Michigan. Valu- 

 able. 



Young growth yellowish green. Fruit clear yellowish white ; flesh clear 

 white. 



Similar to Barnard; brighter in color and slightly later. Must be thinned 

 to insure good size. 



Excellent for either dessert or canning. 



A large and beautiful market peach of fair quality. Very profitable. 



A large, beautiful and fine, rather late peach. Lacks productiveness. 



Good; but very little grown. 



One of the finest late yellow clings; for Southern Michigan. 



An early and productive white fleshed peach of only medium quality. 



Skin very smooth and beautiful. A fine amateur peach. 



A beautiful and superior peach, originating with the late Isaac Pullen, of 



New Jersey. 

 Said to be the most profitable variety in Mason county. 



A market variety, now nearly out of cultivation. 



The genuine is a fine early peach. The one grown here is probably 

 spurious. 



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