454 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Remarks : — This is one of the finest peaches we have ever eaten. 

 It is nearly three inches in diameter. Skin creamy white with a faint 

 crimson blush on one side. Flesh cream colored to the pit, very juicy, 

 tender, melting, sweet, sprightly and of the first quality. The .pit is 

 nearly free. — Rural New Yorker. 



THE ELBERTA PEACH. 



The Elberta Peach has made great gains in popularity the past sea- 

 son, as it became better known and appears to do well north as well as 

 south. Marketmen in New York, Philadelphia and Boston indorse it 

 highly, and say they obtain prices from one-third to twice as much more 

 than for ordinary varieties. It is claimed to ripen at a time when there 

 are no other yellow peaches in the market ; before the Crawford Late 

 and after Reeves' Favorite has gone. It is large and productive, and 

 growers say, the trees have great vigor and hardiness, bearing when very 

 young, in some cases when one year old. Good shipping qualities render 

 it profitable, while its excellence and beauty cause a ready sale. The 

 happy days of peach growers will return again, if its good qualities hold 

 out, and it does not deteriorate from the use of weak buds in the desire 

 to increase so valuable a stock as this. 



PEACH TREES ON WHITE THORN STOCKS. 



It is not to be supposed that horticulturists have as yet learned all 

 that is worth knowing about plant-Hfe, nor discovered all the different 

 and possible modes of propagating the various kinds of plants under cul- 

 tivation. It has long been supposed that the peach would thrive only 

 when budded or grafted on some closely allied stock, such as the almond, 

 apricot, plum, or seeflling of its own species ; but we are now informed 

 by the Revue Horticale, that the common White Thorn {Cratcegus oxy 

 cantJid) may be employed not only as a stock for the peach, but also for 

 the plum and almond. It is stated that Mr. E. Lefoit, Secretary- General 

 of the Horticultural Society of Arrondissement of Meaux, France, has a 

 number of peach trees trained as standards and on walls which are grafted 

 on White Thorn stocks, and that the trees are vigorous and productive. 

 If the peach will thrive on White Thorn stocks in France, it will do so in 

 this country, and probably better on some of our native species of the 

 thorn than on the European. Those who are interested in such matters 

 should give the thorn stock a trial the coming season and report re- 

 sult. 



A. S. F., in American Garden. 



